"He played the king as if afraid someone……" — John Mason Brown
"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."
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John Mason Brown
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30 Quotes by John Mason Brown
John Mason Brown has 30 quotes on this site.
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
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Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest…
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She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it…
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God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things…
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It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant…
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So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
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The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
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The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors…
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Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
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More Ace Quotes
This quote is filed under Ace Quotes,
one of 69 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if…
— William Hazlitt
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Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let…
— Joseph Sobran
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A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match…
— Serena Williams
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I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search,…
— Wes Anderson
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It's more and more difficult to get through to your audience with all of the clutter. This is a great…
— Bill Rancic
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Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the…
— Eugene Field
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I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my…
— Jennie Finch
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who…
— Jennifer Egan
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A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch,…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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