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James Weldon Johnson

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A leading American author, poet, and early civil rights activist.. author poet folklorist and civil rights leader


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Quote Left One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read. Quote Right
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Quote Left There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart. Quote Right
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Quote Left He that never thinks can never be wise. Quote Right
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Quote Left The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. Quote Right
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Quote Left The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years. Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things