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• Horace Greeley:

  There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

• Horace Greeley:

  Common sense is very uncommon.

• Horace Greeley:

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

• Horace Greeley:

  Ease up, the play is over.

• Horace Greeley:

  Go west, young man.

• Horace Greeley:

  I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

• Denis Diderot:

  We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find b

• Denis Diderot:

  If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

• Denis Diderot:

  There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a

• Denis Diderot:

  You have to make it happen.