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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor, reformer and politician. His New York Tribune was the most influential newspaper of the period 1840-1870. Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties..

"Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket."

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"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."

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"The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it."

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"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country."

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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats."

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"There is no bigotry like that of free thought run to seed."

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"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character."

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"Common Sense is very uncommon."

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"The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes. "

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