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One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.
-Marcel Proust
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One Reads The Papers As One Wants

Marcel Proust
One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.
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I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and i'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. i doubt if they read many papers at all.
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Jesse jackson's in trouble. they're going after this tax thing. jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that he paid to his mistress. see, he has just one mistress. jesse uses the standard mistress deduction. as opposed to clinton, who had to itemize.
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