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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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.Frank Moore Colby
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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
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.
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
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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