Oliver Herford
Overview
 
Oliver Herford was a British-born America
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n writer
Writer
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, artist
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 and illustrator
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 who has been called "The American Oscar Wilde
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". As a frequent contributor to The Mentor, Life
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, and Ladies' Home Journal
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, 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) and "Excuse It Please" (1930).
Quotations

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.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one; go ahead, get married.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Many are called but few get up.

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

My wife has a whim of iron.

 
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