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van Doagn, Malta | January 19, 1927 issue

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Frank Moore Colby was a writer who never achieved popularity. Though he liked to defend the people against highbrows and reformers, he meant by "the people" himself and a few other persons whom he knew well, he was not given to expressing opinions about things he could study only at second hand. And anyhow it was the highbrows and reformers he talked about arguing from the way they wrote that they could hardly possess more information than they showed sense. Colby seems not to have cared a rap how many readers he got, or whether they agreed with him. "It is pleasant to argue," he said, "but hideous to convince."

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COLBY, Frank Moore; AUTHORS; AUTHORSHIP; REFORMERS; POLITICAL activists; LITERATURE
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