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The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, “Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.”

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

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