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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 38633 |
| QUOTATION: | It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. |
| 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). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Melville Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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