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I have always been sensitive to competent oratory, and from that year to the present time have heard all kinds-most of it I would say, as one of Plutarch's noble Grecians or Romans put it, "tall and lofty like a cypress tree, but bearing no fruit."

— Art Young Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)

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A good illustrator may draw from models but knows how to forget them.

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Journalism today is for the most part gentlemanly and decorous, in so far as the relations among newspapers in the big cities are concerned.

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With more and more governments, however crude and experimental, dedicated to industrial democracy and universal brotherhood, the era of peace and joy in living will come on earth.

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If he has illuminated the dark and serious subject with a suspicion of fun-it is meant to convey the hope he feels for all sinners like himself, that some relief of a slightly humorous nature may be found even in Hell.

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Usually politics was my theme, varied now and then, on an off day, by some travesty on prevailing fads.

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