Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Van Wyck Brooks.
| Born | February 16, 1886 Plainfield, New Jersey |
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| Died | May 2, 1963 Bridgewater, Connecticut |
Literary historian. Awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature for The Flowering of New England: 1815-1865.
The repository contains one quote from Van Wyck Brooks.
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
