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John Bascom Quotes

1827–1911 United States

John Bascom (May 1, 1827 – October 2, 1911) was a professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1855 to 1874, and was president of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887.

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Also known as: Bascom, John

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

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.

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