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Also known as [[Cassanova’s advice]] or the [[Credit officer's refrain]], an admonition only offered, in these pages, with a generous helping of irony.  
Also known as [[Cassanova’s advice]] or the [[Credit officer’s refrain]], an admonition only offered, in these pages, with a generous helping of irony.  


Better advice: [[murder your darlings]]. Or, as our brethren [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] would say, [[murder your darlings|subject one’s darlings, or procure that such darlings are subjected to, culpable homicide]].
Better advice: [[murder your darlings]]. Or, as our brethren [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] would say, [[murder your darlings|subject one’s darlings, or procure that such darlings are subjected to, culpable homicide]].

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Also known as Cassanova’s advice or the Credit officer’s refrain, an admonition only offered, in these pages, with a generous helping of irony.

Better advice: murder your darlings. Or, as our brethren lawyers would say, subject one’s darlings, or procure that such darlings are subjected to, culpable homicide.

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