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" 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

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" I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. "

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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 it a triumph of the suffrage. "

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" Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. "

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" We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. "

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" That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. "

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

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" We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. "

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" Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? "

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" A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought. "

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