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NEWSPAPER

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
- Galaxy magazine, December 1870

A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.
- "The Benefit of Judicious Training," 6/8/1881

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
- Mark Twain in Eruption

There is no suffering comparable with that which a private person feels when he is for the first time pilloried in print.
- Life on the Mississippi

The old saw says, "Let sleeping dogs lie." Right. Still when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.
- Following the Equator

...one of the worst things about civilization is, that anybody that gits a letter with trouble in it comes and tells you all about it and makes you feel bad, and the newspapers fetches you the troubles of everybody all over the world, and keeps you downhearted and dismal most all the time, and it's such a heavy load for a person.

MARK TWAIN