"How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out……" — John Mason Brown
"How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!"
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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 Circles Quotes
This quote is filed under Circles Quotes,
one of 1,135 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's…
— Paul Auster
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I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a…
— David Bailey
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect;…
— Annie Besant
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical…
— Annie Besant
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
— Bill Bryson
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It's all about the light. Always face it, because that's how you give your face good angles. If you're outside…
— Gisele Bundchen
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the…
— Samuel Butler
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In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.
— Tony Campolo
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May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
— Jonathan Carroll
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