Frank Moore Colby
Quotes by Frank Moore Colby
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The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
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Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
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As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.
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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
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In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
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By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
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Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
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As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.
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There ought to be some sign in a book about Man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
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