Artemus Ward
Pen name of Charles Farrar Browne
American humorist Charles Farrar Browne, pen name Artemus Ward, used backwoods characters and local dialect to comment on current events in his fictional tales of an itinerant showman.
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“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.”
Artemus Ward
“I have never heard any of your lectures, but from what I can learn I should say that for people who like the kind of lectures you deliver, they are just the kind of lectures such people like. Yours respectfully, O. Abe.”
Artemus Ward
“It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.”
Artemus Ward
“Let us all be happy and live within our means, Even if we have to borrow money to do it with.”
Artemus Ward
“Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?”
Artemus Ward
“For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.”
Artemus Ward