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George Dennison Prentice Quotes


The editor of the Louisville Journal, which he built into a major newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky.
George Dennison Prentice was the editor of the Louisville Journal, which he built into a major newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky. He attracted readers by satire as well as exaggerated reporting and support of the Know-Nothing Party in the 1850s. His writing was said to contribute to rabid anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner sentiment, and a riot in 1855. During the Civil War, he created and wrote about a fictional guerrilla "Sue Mundy", whose activities he used to taunt the Union military commander of the state.

Here are some famous quotes by George Dennison Prentice.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

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About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.

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What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.

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Some people seem as if they can never have been children and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.