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To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.

James Parton

If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person.

James Parton

James Parton

James Parton

Born: February 9, 1822

Died: October 17, 1891 (aged 69)

Bio: James Parton was an English-born American biographer who wrote books on the lives of Horace Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Voltaire.

Known for:

Life of Andrew Jackson (1859)
Life & Times of Aaron Burr (1858)
Famous Americans of Recent Times (1867)
General Butler in New Orleans (1863)

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