Quote by Henry Fielding
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether the

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. – Henry Fielding

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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! – Henry Fielding

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Mark Twain supposedly observed, Dont pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton. Of course, today, he probably would have added, And hairspray by the gallon. – Thomas F. Calcagni

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

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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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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. – Antonin Artaud

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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. – E. B. White

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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die. – Candace Cameron

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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With good intentions, hell proverbially is paved. – William James

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