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> [With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/with-a-few-honorable-exceptions-the-press-of-the-united-states-is-at/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

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## More by Samuel Hopkins Adams

> [The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/the-path-of-the-pursuer-and-the-prey-often-run-obscurely-parallel/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/according-to-the-estimate-of-a-prominent-advertising-firm-above-90/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/success-a-marvelous-stimulant-bubbling-with-inspiration-and/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/a-wasted-human-being-that-s-a-sort-of-practical-blasphemy-according/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/the-ordinary-run-of-advertising-is-nothing-more-than-an-effort-to/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/medicine-would-be-the-ideal-profession-if-it-did-not-involve-giving/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/ignorance-and-credulous-hope-make-the-market-for-most-proprietary/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/i-m-a-suicide-i-walked-right-spang-over-the-edge-of-life-and/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/shortest-straw-pulls-the-skunk-s-tail/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/you-never-get-bored-when-you-have-the-probabilities-of-your-next-meal/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/i-d-sell-my-soul-to-the-devil-if-he-d-buy-such-a-weakly-puny-piffling/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/with-the-exception-of-lawyers-there-is-no-profession-which-considers/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [Anything is easy to the man who sees… The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/anything-is-easy-to-the-man-who-sees-the-open-eye-of-the-open-mind/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/boredom-is-simply-romanticism-with-a-morning-after-thirst/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

> [Boredom and booze--cause and effect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins-adams/boredom-and-booze-cause-and-effect/)

[Samuel Hopkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins-adams/)

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