To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
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We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
Thoreau
The Commonplace