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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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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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Letters (writing)
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Samuel Butler
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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Writing
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Samuel Butler
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler

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God
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Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. – Anna Quindlen

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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. – Spiro T. Agnew

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Harmony seldom makes a headline. – Silas Bent

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All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. – Bobby Knight, on reporters

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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. – English Proverb

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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. – John Drinkwater

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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. – Baruch Spinoza

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Round numbers are always false. – Samuel Johnson

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