I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or … — Joseph Pulitzer

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Joseph PulitzerPublisher · American · 1847 – 1911

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