John Mason Brown
Critic
1900-07-03
Quotes by John Mason Brown
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
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The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
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The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
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The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
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Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
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Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
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Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason, and invective for documentation than in politics. That is a realm, peopled only by villains or heroes, in which everything is black or white and gray is a forbidden color.
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(Television is) chewing gum for the eyes.
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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 what they may desire.
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