.

Every worthy Maecenas imagines that he is a great painter, writer,
sculptor or musician, side-tracked by material cares thrust upon him by
unkind fate. John Jacob Astor once told Washington Irving that it was
only business responsibility that prevented his being a novelist; and
at other times he declared his intent to take up music as a profession
as soon as he had gotten all of his securities properly tied up. And
whether he worked out his dreams or not, there is no doubt but that
they added to his peace, happiness and length of days. Happy is the
man who escapes the critics by leaving his literary masterpiece in the
ink.

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