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" How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. "

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" There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. "

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