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Possibly you will not be a fully accepted classic until you have been
dead a hundred years,--it is the fate of the Shakspeares & of all
genuine prophets,--but then your books will be as common as Bibles, I
believe. You ain't a weed, but an oak; you ain't a summer house, but a
cathedral. |
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You are really my only author; I am restricted to you; I wouldn't
give a damn for the rest.
- Letter to W. D.Howells, July 21, 1885
From PUCK,
March 27, 1907
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