John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman (March 2, 1862 – November 4, 1933) was an American author.

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    You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

    Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Thank heaven for little girls!
    For little girls get bigger every day.
    —Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)

    The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)