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Boston runs to brains as well as to beans and brown bread. But she is cursed with an army of cranks whom nothing short of a straitjacket or a swamp elm club will ever control.

William Cowper Brann

The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.

William Cowper Brann

William Cowper Brann

William Cowper Brann

Born: January 4, 1855

Died: April 1, 1898 (aged 43)

Bio: William Cowper Brann was an American journalist known as Brann the Iconoclast.

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