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Bergen Baldwin Evans was a Northwestern University professor of English and a television host. He received a George Foster Peabody Award in 1957 for excellence in broadcasting for his CBS TV series The Last Word. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. September 1904 – 4. February 1978
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Famous Bergen Evans Quotes

“[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.”

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Bergen Evans, in his Dictionary of Quotations

“We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.”

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The Natural History of Nonsense.

“Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.”

Bergen Evans

The Natural History of Nonsense XIX.

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