People get so in the habit ... by John Jay Chapman, an American Poet

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“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.”

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Name: John Jay Chapman

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Mar 2, 1862

Date of Death: 1933

Profession: Poet

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It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

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

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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.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

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