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`` Suppose you take Mr. Hearst's morning American at $10,000 a year '', Brisbane proposed.

`` You could come down to the office once a day, look over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then have the remainder of your time for your more serious literary labors.

If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.

Of course, if you don't make the American a success, Hearst will have no further use for you ''.