Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. - William Hazlitt - Quotesmemo.com

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I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it. I understand its structural flaws, and the lies it tells, which are primarily, but not always, the lies of omission, and I wasn't going to leave that out. Knopf offered to publish the book but they said that an editor was going to "take out all the negativity," which, of course, I wasn't going to accept. I had been paid half my advance, and I had Nation Books buy the manuscript for that half.

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William Hazlitt

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

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