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Meaning
The speaker is expressing contempt for newspapers and suggesting that a person with honor would find them repellent. It presents newspapers as something morally distasteful rather than merely uninteresting.
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Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
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About Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire is quoted here; further biographical details are not publicly available.
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