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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."

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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
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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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"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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"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."
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"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
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