Bearer Channel Rate

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“No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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—William Faulkner (1897–1962)