The Genial Idiot

ISBN-13: 9781515316817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 78 str.

John Kendrick Bangs

Opis

Excerpt from The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews
"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 the line, 'It's a long lane that has no turning, ' twenty-four times.
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