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Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American playwright Langdon Elwyn Mitchell.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell was an American playwright popular on Broadway in the early twentieth century. He was the son of a noted writer and neurologist, S. Weir Mitchell, and the grandson of writer and physician John Kearsley Mitchell. Born in Philadelphia, he studied in Dresden and Paris, attended the Harvard and Columbia law schools, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1886. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he wrote plays under his own name and poetry under the pen name "John Philip Varley."

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's. — © Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.
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