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ISBN10: 1515316815
ISBN13: 9781515316817
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 1 2015
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.16 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781515316817
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 1 2015
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.16 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
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.
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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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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