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Robert Barr Quotes

1849–1912 Canada

Robert Barr (16 September 1849 – 21 October 1912) was an Anglo–American author and journalist who spent time in the United States as a staff writer for the Detroit Free Press. In 1881 he moved to London to establish the weekly English edition of the Free Press.

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Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Barr (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.