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Frank Moore Colby was an American writer born in 1865 and died in 1925. His works covered a range of fields including history, literature, and philosophy, known for his in-depth research and unique insights.

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Book:Imaginary Obligations

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“Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.”

People Mind Turns Quality Forever Expression Judging

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“Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.”

Sound Moral Angry Rendering Disapproval Distaste

Book:The Margin of Hesitation

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“Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.”

Interest Tolerance Apathy Intolerance Persecution Brotherly Personal Interest

Book:The pursuit of humor and other essays

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“When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.”

Waiting Temptation March

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“I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.”

Knows Feelings Left Particular Anger Angry Sensations Disagreeable No Anger

Author:Frank Moore Colby

“Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?”

Men Inspirational Humor Murder Teeth Sense Of Humor Confession Treason Wigs Arson

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“Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.”

Humor Funny Communication Terrible Improvement Boredom Bores Information And Communication

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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?”

Ifs Men Heart Dies Hours Sun Adventure Failure Ought Travel Shadow Casts Excuse Every Man Funny Travel Inquisitive Great Adventure 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.”

People Life Feels Seems Life Is Natural Pleasure Inspirational Life Goes On Intelligent Asking Clever Chiefs Relish Bewilderment Answering Questions

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“Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.”

Has Beens Said Country Sin Calculating Impulsive Sinning

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“There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.”

Knows Men Book Reading Ought One Man Book Reading

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“Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.”

Fame Reputation

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“Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.”

Deals Shame Guilt Harm

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“In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.”

Politics Middle Politician Temperament Acquisition

Book:Tailor blood and other notes and comments

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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.”

Self Rights Fool Lonely Patient Stupidity Satire Sarcasm Occupation Introspective Inspection

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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.”

Men Mind May War Balance Conflict Decades Wounded

Book:The Colby Essays: Tailor blood and other notes and comments

Source: The Colby Essays: Tailor blood and other notes and comments

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

People Inspiration Loses Seeing Anger Temper

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

Way Mind Company Arrivals Arriving

Book:The Margin of Hesitation

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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.”

Men Reason Found He Man Integrity Ethics Bottom Imitation

Book:Tailor blood and other notes and comments

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“You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.”

Friendship Enemy Friends True Friend True Friendship

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“Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.”

Care Anxiety Casts Anchors

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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.”

Love Interest Tolerance Nine Apathy Intolerance Persecution Brotherly Brotherly Love Personal Interest

Book:The pursuit of humor and other essays

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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.”

Politics Wise Politician Humble Criminals Modest Requirements

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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.”

Children Art Nature Honest New York Regard

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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.”

Ifs Men Effort Cities Office Intellectual Stealing Intense Triumph Mayors Suffrage Public Office Large Cities

Book:Imaginary Obligations

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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.”

Mind Littles Fun Progress Mankind Modesty Consolation Little Minds

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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.”

Men Littles Memories Feats Canals

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“The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.”

Ifs World Play Seeing Plot

Book:The Colby Essays: Tailor blood and other notes and comments

Source: The Colby Essays: Tailor blood and other notes and comments

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

Running Chance Ought Illness Mental Illness Noses

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

Would Be Meetings Reasonable Persist Committees

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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.”

Mean Littles Easier Increase Crowds Forts Inattention

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“Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.”

Men Quality Masters Civilization Drawing Admire March Mediocrity Vans Columns Formation Totems

Book:The pursuit of humor and other essays

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About the Author

Born: 1865
Died: 1925
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 33

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The pursuit of humor and other essays

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Imaginary Obligations

Tailor blood and other notes and comments

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The Margin of Hesitation

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