James Gordon Brown

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    Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
    —William James (1843–1916)

    The Cardinal is at his wit’s end—it is true that he had not far to go.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    So how can you lose what you’ve never owned?
    —Lew Brown (1893–1958)