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.
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. - 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.
- Frank Moore Colby
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. - Frank Moore Colby
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot. - Frank Moore Colby
The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.
I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. - Frank Moore Colby
I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds. - Frank Moore Colby
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
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
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.
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
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
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 a… - 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 a…
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. - Frank Moore Colby
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.
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