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“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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 134b68625057ffe1df182b1a01f0ba01aa53049c31c921e73dce8fb0af3e5e9f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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