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John Mason Brown Quotes

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose  (John Mason Brown Quotes) It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader’s interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.  (John Mason Brown Quotes) How prophetic L’Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!  (John Mason Brown Quotes) Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others  (John Mason Brown Quotes) 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  (John Mason Brown Quotes) How prophetic L’Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles  (John Mason Brown Quotes) America is a land where men govern, but women rule  (John Mason Brown Quotes) Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others  (John Mason Brown Quotes) To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles  (John Mason Brown Quotes) He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace  (John Mason Brown Quotes) I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting  (John Mason Brown Quotes) So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies  (John Mason Brown Quotes) Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes  (John Mason Brown Quotes) The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better  (John Mason Brown Quotes) What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are  (John Mason Brown Quotes) A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember  (John Mason Brown Quotes) No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause  (John Mason Brown Quotes) I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them  (John Mason Brown Quotes) Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth  (John Mason Brown Quotes) The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action  (John Mason Brown Quotes) The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases  (John Mason Brown Quotes) It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader’s interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in  (John Mason Brown Quotes) God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living  (John Mason Brown Quotes) What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives  (John Mason Brown Quotes) Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child’s reason without destroying your own  (John Mason Brown Quotes) 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  (John Mason Brown Quotes) Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics  (John Mason Brown Quotes) 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  (John Mason Brown Quotes)