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John Jay Chapman

Data di nascita: 2. Marzo 1862
Data di morte: 4. Novembre 1933

John Jay Chapman , poeta e drammaturgo statunitense.

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Frasi John Jay Chapman

„Gli adulatori somigliano agli amici come i lupi ai cani.“

— John Jay Chapman
da Byron's conspiracy

Sui cani

„Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.“

— John Jay Chapman
Memories and Milestones, Ch. 12: "President Eliot" HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=gFEPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22every+generation+is+a+secret+society+and+has+incommunicable+enthusiasms+tastes+and+interests+which+are+a+mystery+both+to+its+predecessors+and+to+posterity%22&pg=PA184#v=onepage (1915)

„The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.“

— John Jay Chapman
Chapter 1

„A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.“

— John Jay Chapman
Chapter 1

„Good government is the outcome of private virtue.“

— John Jay Chapman
Chapter 2

„People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,—that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.“

— John Jay Chapman
Chapter 7

„When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.“

— John Jay Chapman
Society http://books.google.com/books?id=O0hAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22When+a+man+talks+with+absolute+sincerity+and+freedom+he+goes+on+a+voyage+of+discovery+The+whole+company+has+shares+in+the+enterprise%22&pg=PA64#v=onepage, Causes and Consequences (1898)