John Jay Chapman - Human Quotes

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If an inhabitant of another planet should visit the earth, he would receive, on the whole, a truer notion of human life by attending an Italian opera than he would by reading Emerson's volumes. He would learn from the Italian opera that there were two sexes; and this, after all, is probably the fact with which the education of such a stranger ought to begin.

John Jay Chapman

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

John Jay Chapman

You get the satisfaction of being heard, and that is the whole possible scope of human ambition.

John Jay Chapman