James Bryce Quotes - Page 2

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• An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.

  James Bryce

  Mistake, Gentleman, President

  James Bryce (1920). “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.

  James Bryce

  Book, Rooms, Enough

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• When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

  James Bryce

  Book, Waste, Poor

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• Life is too short for reading inferior books.

  James Bryce

  Life Is Too Short, Reading, Book

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• I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.

  James Bryce

  Equality, Thinking, Rights

  James Bryce Bryce (1888). “The American Commonwealth”, Ams PressInc

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• Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

  James Bryce

  Cities, America, Chicago

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