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John Jay Chapman Quotes
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
John Jay Chapman



Biography
Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: March 2, 1862
Died: 1933

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The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
John Jay Chapman

All progress is experimental.
John Jay Chapman

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
John Jay Chapman

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
John Jay Chapman

Too much agreement kills the chat.
John Jay Chapman

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
John Jay Chapman

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
John Jay Chapman

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Words
Age, Beneath, Born, Every, Fact, Grows, His, Lie, Man, Oppressions, Progress, Reason, Seems, Single, Slow, Under, Up, World, Yoke
Definitions
Age, Beneath, Born, Every, Fact, His, Lie, Man, Progress, Reason, Single, Slow, Under, Up, World, Yoke
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