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5942. NEWSPAPERS, Falsehoods.—[further continued].

The man who never
looks into a newspaper is better informed
than he who reads them; inasmuch as he
who knows nothing is nearer to truth than
he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and
errors. He who reads nothing will still learn
the great facts, and the details are all false.—
To John Norvell. Washington ed. v, 92. Ford ed., ix, 73.
(W. 1807)