The Complete Cynic / Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner

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Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford Ethel Watts Mumford Addison Mizner
Paul Elder & Company Publishers · · San Francisco
Copyright, 1902, by Elder and Shepard Copyright, 1903, by Paul Elder and Company Copyright, 1904, by Paul Elder and Company Copyright, 1905, by Paul Elder and Company Copyright, 1906, by Paul Elder and Company Copyright, 1907, by Paul Elder and Company Copyright, 1908, by Paul Elder and Company Copyright, 1910, by Paul Elder and Company
Verbum Sap
Fur give and fur get.
Wisdom may not be confined 'Twixt covers of the dictionary, Neither will it be defined; Learning, you may quickly bury; Wisdom—Soul and Life combined combined— Lingers ever with the merry.
This Little Book of Wisdom Great It pleases us to dedicate To that Rampageous Reprobate— The World at Large. Yet as we mark his Stony Phiz And see him whoop and whirl and whiz, We can but cry—O Lord, why is The World at Large! OLIVER HERFORD.
To Foolish-wise and Wisely-gay Of whate'er country they may be, We dedicate this little gem By Ollie, Addison and Me, In hopes they'll buy in massive lots And help us boil our little pots. (T)
Reader—would you a Cynic be? Vindictive—Vitriolic? Then be one in your Infancy— Your Nurse will think it's Colic. Like Measles take it while you're young, 'Twill drive your parents frantic, But you'll grow up, (if still unhung) An Optimist Romantic. (H)