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Merely Quotes by Frank Moore Colby
- Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
- Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
- 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 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
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