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It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. - Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “At the Hostelry” (posthumous), p. 353, Poems, The Works of Herman Melville, vol. 16, ed. Raymond M. Weaver (1924).

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