The Man Who Could Not Fail
He sent bed warmers to the tropics; his captain sold them as molasses ladles. He dumped a page of loose punctuation at the back of his book and told readers to season it themselves. Oliver Wendell Holmes eventually declared him the true father of American literary independence. His name was Timothy Dexter — the man luck followed like a stray dog that turned out to own the house.
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