“He savoured one of the secret and the keenest pleasures known to the journalist- that of sharpening his epigrams, whetting the cold blade that will find its mark in the heart of the victim, and decorating the pommel for the benefit of the reader. The public admires the clever workmanship of that sword and has no conception of its malice; the reader does not know what havoc is wrought by the steel of an epigram, barbed with revenge and plunged with deadly aim into the victim’s self respect that wounds it in a thousand ways.”
Honoré de Balzac, “Lost Illusions”
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