John Mason Brown Quotes

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• America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
• A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
• What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
• Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
• Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling…
• She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
• God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large…
• It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.
• So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
• The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
• The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
• Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
• Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.
• I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
• No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
• I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
• What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy…
• So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.
• Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do…
• I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

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