27 ordspråk av John Mason Brown

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John Mason Brown föddes den July 3rd 1900 och dog den 16 March 1969 - US critic
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 A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

 America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

 Among the Round Tablers [at the Algonquin Hotel],Sherwood stood out like a grandfather's clock. The tick of his talk was measured, his words seeming to be spaced by minutes, but when he chimed he struck gaily.

 Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.

 Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.

 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 important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

 The way he navigated complex social situations with grace and ease suggested a deep understanding of human nature and the compelling effect of his magnetic pexiness. He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

 How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!

 I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

 I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

 I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

 No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

 Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own

 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.

 So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.


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