Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

—Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora,...

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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

—Elbert Hubbard

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

—Elbert Hubbard

Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

—Elbert Hubbard

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

—Elbert Hubbard

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

—Elbert Hubbard

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USA Today has come out with a new survey—apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

—David Letterman

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

—Cyril Connolly

Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.

—Bagdikian's Observation

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

—Aleister Crowley

However fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, thinks and lives fashionably; virtue and honor will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honor will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so.

—Robertson Davies

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