John Mason Brown Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: July 3, 1900 - March 16, 1969
Birthday: July 3
Death: March 16
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
source: John Mason Brown (1950). “Still seeing things”
topic: Friendship, Names, People, Loathe, Braggarts
