She wrote witty, descriptive letters of Middle Eastern life. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. General notions are generally wrong.
Life is too short for a long story.
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