Quote by Samuel Butler
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. – Samuel Butler

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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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Food
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. – Samuel Butler

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Dreams
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler

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Media, the plural of mediocrity. – Jimmy Breslin

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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. – David Brinkley

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The newspaper is the second-hand in the clock of history; and it is not only made of baser metal than those which point to the minute and the hour, but it seldom goes right. – Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), “On Some Forms of Literature,” The Art of

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In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. – Mark Twain

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. – Voltaire

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