"Once we read that someone was killed, robbed, or was the victim of an accident, that a house burned down, that a ship ran aground, or that a steamer's boiler exploded, or that a cow was run over on the Western Railway, or that a rabid dog was shot dead, or that grasshoppers appeared in the middle of winter and in the countryside, then we can get by with this, we don't have to read more similar news. If we are aware of the principle, why multiply the examples? In the eyes of the philosopher, all newspapers are gossip, and those who publish them, those who read them, are so many tea-stirring old women.
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Henry David ThoreauAll Translations
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Once we read that someone was killed, robbed, or was the victim of an accident, that a house burned down, that a ship ran aground, or that a steamer's boiler exploded, or that a cow was run over on the Western Railway, or that a rabid dog was shot dead, or that grasshoppers appeared in the middle of winter and in the countryside, then we can get by with this, we don't have to read more similar news. If we are aware of the principle, why multiply the examples? In the eyes of the philosopher, all newspapers are gossip, and those who publish them, those who read them, are so many tea-stirring old women.
""Ha egyszer elolvastuk, hogy valakit megöltek, kiraboltak, vagy baleset áldozata lett, hogy leégett egy ház, zátonyra futott egy hajó, vagy a gőzös kazánja felrobbant, vagy a Nyugati Vasútvonalon elgázoltak egy tehenet, vagy agyonlőttek egy veszett kutyát, vagy tél derekán szöcskék jelentek meg a vidéken, akkor ezzel már beérhetjük, több hasonló hírt nem kell elolvasnunk. Ha tisztában vagyunk az elvvel, minek szaporítsuk a példákat? A filozófus szemében minden újság pletyka, s aki kiadja, aki elolvassa, megannyi teázgató vénasszony."