Work won't do me any good. . . I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the … - Samuel Hopkins Adams

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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

Samuel Hopkins Adams

Work won't do me any good. . . I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

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With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.

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We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

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The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

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Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

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Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.

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