Frank Moore Colby

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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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. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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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. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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