Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it.

—Horace Greeley

About Horace Greeley

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party...

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Fame is vapor, popularity an accident; riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.

—Horace Greeley

The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it.

—Horace Greeley

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning… a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

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