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Oliver Herford Quotes
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Famous Oliver Herford Quotations
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Oliver Herford (1863 - 1935) was a British born American writer, artist and illustrator who has been called "The American Oscar Wilde". As a frequent contributor to The Mentor, Life, and Ladies' Home Journal, he sometimes signed his artwork as "O Herford". In 1906 he wrote and illustrated the "Little Book of Bores". He also wrote short poems like "The Chimpanzee" and "The Hen", as well as writing and illustrating "The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten" (1904), "Cynic's Calendar" (1917) and "Excuse It Please" (1930). His sister Beatrice Herford was also a humorist
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- A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well.
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- Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.
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- Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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- Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall
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