Frank Moore Colby Quotes

Frank Moore Colby was an American educator and writer.

✵ 1865 – 1925
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Frank Moore Colby Quotes

“Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humour?”

Frank Moore Colby

Frank Moore Colby, (1926) The Colby Essays, Vol. 1., "Satire and Teeth". Reported in Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press. (1993) ISBN 0231071949. p. 431.

“To be learned in literature is such a different thing from liking it.”

Frank Moore Colby

Frank Moore Colby, Imaginary Obligations, Dodd, Mead, and Company (1904) ISBN 9780848692599. p. 217.

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