American - Educator | 1865 - 1925
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
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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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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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A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
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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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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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