Expression Quote by Frank Moore Colby

“Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.”

Frank Moore Colby

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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

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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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One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

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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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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

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

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

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As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned…

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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider…

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Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

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Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes…

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Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

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