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Show DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES was once, it is related, applied to by a young man for a position as amanuensis, to whom he replied, "I have no writing to do which I am not competent to do myself with a little occasional aid from members of my own family. I regret not to be able to give you encouragement as to employment in Boston, but the truth is there is next to none of the kind you mention, most of our authors being as poor as rats themselves, and no more able to keep an amanuensis than they are to set up a coach and six." |