It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
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Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
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