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It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
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In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.
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Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.
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Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Mary Ritter Beard
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Born:
August 5, 1876
Died:
August 14, 1958
(aged 82)
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