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One of the most revealing things about a country is the way it takes the threat of war.

— Ida Tarbell All in the Day's Work (1939)

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One must be an artist before he can create-that I knew.

All in the Day's Work (1939)

These long rides, these night waits, brought unforgettable looks into human lives. Strange how travelers will confide their ambitions, unload their secrets, show their scars to strangers.

All in the Day's Work (1939)

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

The Tariff in Our Times (1911)

Even more hopeful, if not so clear to many people, is the increasing knowledge that we are getting of man as an individual and as a mass, coming to us particularly from men of science.

All in the Day's Work (1939)

Women, newspaper women, have to get over that habit of quitting — it's fatal. And she mustn’t cry — if she belong[s] to that class she will probably be asked to quit. Tears may be a forceful weapon in matrimony, but never in an editorial room.

Women in Journalism (1904)

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