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Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Frank Moore Colby
Guilt, Shame, Harm
Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

Frank Moore Colby
Reputation, Fame

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Frank Moore Colby
Book, Reading, Men
Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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

Frank Moore Colby
Country, Sin, Said
Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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.

Frank Moore Colby
Wise, Humble, Criminals
Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Frank Moore Colby
Art, Nature, New York

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

Frank Moore Colby
Waiting, Temptation, March
Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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