Russell Baker
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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
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Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.