The essayist Frank Moore died at the age of 61. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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An American encyclopedia editor and essayist, he is known for works such as Outlines of General History (1900), Imaginary Obligations (1904), and Constrained Attitudes (1910). He taught history and economics at Amherst College, Barnard College, and New York University.
He was born and raised in Washington, D. C. In the 1880s, he attended college in New York City.
Quotes
"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.
"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
"A ‘new thinker’, when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.