The nature of bad news infects the teller.
~
Antony and Cleopatra
by
William Shakespeare
I am . . . joined with eleven others in reporting the debates in Parliament for a Morning Newspaper. Night after night, I record predictions that never come to pass, professions that are never fulfilled, explanations that are only meant to mystify. I wallow in words.
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David Copperfield
by
Charles Dickens
"Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell, rememb'red tolling a departing friend."
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Henry IV, Part Two
by
William Shakespeare