T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that alw — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
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T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

— Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
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