Frank Moore Colby Quotes - Page 2

• Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Tolerance, Apathy, Brotherly

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Acquisition, Politics, Politician

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Expression, People, Judging

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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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.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Lonely, Sarcasm, Rights

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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.

  Frank Moore Colby

  War, Men, Mind

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby Essays: Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Running, Noses, Chance

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Book, Reading, Men

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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