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Explore more quotes by 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."
"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."
"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."
"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
"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."
"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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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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