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Frank Moore Colby Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.



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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.



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Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.



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By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.



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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.



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I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.



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



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