"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."

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Source : Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

Frank Moore Colby

#Wise Quotes #Humble Quotes #Criminals Quotes

“Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons”
“Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.”
“I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.”
“In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.”
“The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.”
“I honestly thought my marriage would work because me and the wife did share a sense of humour. We had to really, because she didn't have one.”
“I'm a hero with coward's legs.”
“Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.”

Source : Jan de Hartog (1979). “THE LAMB'S WAR”

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