Frank Colby
Frank Colby
Frank Moore Colbywas an American educator and writer...
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth10 February 1865
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Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection
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Why need every honest poet be suspected of leading a quadruple life? Sometimes the second or third meaning is less interesting than the first, and the only really difficult thing about a poem is the critic's explanation of it
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A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have thought
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In public we say the race is to the strongest; in private we know that a lopsided man runs the fastest along the little side-hills of success
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Reform often seems only the dislike of the blase for the people with animal spirits