"Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost."
— Sarah Josepha Hale

January 1, 1970

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"Sketches of American Character: The Village Schoolmistress"; Ladies' Magazine, vol. 1, no. 5 (May 1828), p. 205