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Frank Moore Colby Quotes
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Frank Moore Colby



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Author Profession: Educator
Nationality: American
Born: 1865
Died: 1925

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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.
Frank Moore Colby

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?
Frank Moore Colby

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Frank Moore Colby

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.
Frank Moore Colby

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.
Frank Moore Colby

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.
Frank Moore Colby

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Frank Moore Colby

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Words
Changing, Consolation, Fun, Little, Mankind, Mind, Progress, Without
Definitions
Changing, Consolation, Fun, Little, Mankind, Mind, Progress, Without
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