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Quote by Mark Twain
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right plac

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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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? – Mark Twain

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. – Mark Twain

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News is history shot on the wing. – Gene Fowler, Skyline

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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. – Arthur Miller

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Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. – Elbert Hubbard

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