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Occupations-Journalism: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading. For evil news rides post, while good news baits.— MILTON — Samson Agonistes. L. 1538.

He's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?— MILTON — Samson Agonistes. L. 1,350.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. d. NAPOLEON I. The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.— POPE — Epistles of Horace. Ep. I. Bk. II. L. 108.

Bring me no more reports.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 1.

Master, master! news, old news, and such news as you never heard of!— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 30.

News fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible.— Shakespeare — King John. Act V. Sc. 6. L. 19.

Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear, The good and bad together.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 53.

Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 24.

Report me and my cause aright To the unsatisfied.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 350.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous-licentious-abominable-infernal -not that I ever read them-no-I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.— R. B. SHERIDAN — The Critic. Act I. Sc. 1.

Trade hardly deems the busy day begun Till his keen eye along the sheet has run; The blooming daughter throws her needle by, And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh; While the grave mother puts her glasses on, And gives a tear to some old crony gone. The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down, To know what last new folly fills the town; Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things, The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings.— SPRAGUE — Curiosity.