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The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews

By John Kendrick Bangs

2021-02-17 16:40:34

"GOOD!" cried the Idiot, from behind the voluminous folds of the magazine section of his Sunday newspaper. "Here's a man after my own heart. Professor Duff, of Glasgow University, has come out with a public statement that the maxim ... Read more

"GOOD!" cried the Idiot, from behind the voluminous folds of the magazine section of his Sunday newspaper. "Here's a man after my own heart. Professor Duff, of Glasgow University, has come out with a public statement that the maxims and proverbs of our forefathers are largely hocus-pocus and buncombe. I've always maintained that myself from the moment I had my first copy-book lesson in which I had to scrawl tNhe line, 'It's a long lane that has no turning, ' twenty-four times. And then that other absurd statement, 'A stitch in the side is worth two in the hand'-or something like it-I forget just how it goes-what Tommy-rot that is.

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File size221.676 KB
Print pages234
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1978336636
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John Kendrick Bangs
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John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor, and satirist. He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father Francis N. Bangs was a lawyer in New Yor...

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