You cannot escape discovery. The world is full of idle people reading
books, and they are only too glad to act as detectives; they please
their miserable vanity by showing their alertness, and are proud to hear
witness against you in the court of parallel columns. You have no
safety in the obscurity of the author from whom you take your own; there
is always that most terrible reader, the reader of one book, who knows
that very author, and will the more indecently hasten to bring you to
the bar because he knows no other, and wishes to display his erudition.
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