"The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues."
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213.
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John Bascom
John Bascom (May 1, 1827 β 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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