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'The want of an innocent occupation may be reason enough why one should write, but some better reason or a plausible apology should be rendered for inflicting the writing upon the public; for if the public, ... is not obliged to read, there is a small public of kind friends who feel a moral obligation to perform that duty.'
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
From the preface to Married or Single?, 1857, her last novel.
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