Frank Moore Colby Quotes

• Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

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• A ‘new thinker’, when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

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

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

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

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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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• Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

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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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• 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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• Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

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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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• Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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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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Frank Moore Colby (18)

Birth:	1865
Death:	1925
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Professor, Writer

About

Frank Moore Colby was born in Washington, D. C., USA. He was an American editor, historian, professor, and writer. He graduated from Columbia University in 1888. He was acting professor of history at Amherst College in 1890-91, lecturer on history at Columbia and instructor in history and economics at Barnard College from 1891 to 1895, and professor of economics at New York University thereafter until 1900. In 1898 he became editor of the International Year Book and one of the editors of the International Cyclopedia. He wrote several books include: Imaginary obligations, The margin of hesitation, Constrained Attitudes, and Outlines of general history.

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