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The newspaper does everything for us. It runs the police force and the banks, commands the militia, controls the legislature, baptizes the young, marries the foolish, comforts the afflicted, afflicts the comfortable, buries the dead and roasts them afterwards...
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The mission of a modern newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Miracles are laughed at be a nation that r-reads thirty millyon newspapers a day an' supports Wall sthreet.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Born:
July 10, 1867
Died:
April 24, 1936
(aged 68)
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