John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman (March 2, 1862 – November 4, 1933) was an American author.

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    People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,—that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

    With a binding like you’ve got, people are gonna want to know what’s in the book.
    —Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)

    Is there something in trade that dessicates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self- seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation.... Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)