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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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler

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Water
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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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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators. – Patrick J. Buchanan

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Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. – Rebecca West

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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. – Wendell Phillips

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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow. – Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle

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