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>There was a time when the kudos of such a magazine sprang from independence from the owner. Openly partisan press is one thing; but even for a journal asserting liberal credentials, the possibility of editor resignation on the grounds of interference in editorial independence, was a mighty reputational matter. Those were days when use of anonymous sources was also frowned on as they are too easily abused to further non-independent political ends.

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Thank you for reminding me that one of the greatest poets in our language- not the greatest, the bard has that seat locked up - but a favorite of mine -began his masterpiece with those five words:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45536/ode-intimations-of-immortality-from-recollections-of-early-childhood

With your reminder I went back, read it a few times, and enjoyed it for the nth times.

How about its final quatrain?:

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.