The critic is a man who ...

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
 John Mason Brown

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
 John Mason Brown
What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
 John Mason Brown
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
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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
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.
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