"The comic book [is] the marijuana of the……" — John Mason Brown
"The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future."
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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 Bane Quotes
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Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men…
— Joseph Hall
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Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
— Michel de Montaigne
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Tedium is the bane of immortality.
— Neil Lowe
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
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O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
— Bias of Priene
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
— Walter Savage Landor
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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
— Franz Boas
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Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from…
— Chuck Baldwin
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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