Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories. Crawford was born in Bagni di Lucca, Italy, the only son of the American sculptor Thomas Crawford and Louisa Cutler Ward, the brother of writer Mary Crawford Fraser, and the nephew of Julia Ward Howe, the American poet. He studied successively at St Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire; Cambridge University; University of Heidelberg; and the University of Rome.
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No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Friendship
It makes little difference what the trade, business, or branch of learning, in mechanical labor, or intellectual effort, the educated man is always superior to the common laborer. One who is in the habit of applying his powers in the right way will carry system into any occupation, and it will help him as much to handle a rope as to write a poem.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Education
The devil knoweth his own, and is a particularly bad paymaster.
—Francis Marion Crawford
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Expectation, Positive Attitudes, Optimism, Failure
If there were no evil in ourselves there could be no temptation from without, for nothing evil could seem pleasant.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Temptation
Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Destiny
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