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John Bascom was an American professor, college president and writer.

✵ 1. May 1827 – 27. October 1911
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John Bascom Quotes

“The only way to hasten the kingdom is to hasten growth; to hasten work, and that, too, along the very lines in which the "resounding loom of time" is weaving in its various-colored threads.”

John Bascom

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 269.

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“The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues.”

John Bascom

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213.

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