We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
Mark TwainA person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.
Mark TwainThe newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
Mark Twain