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1867–1938 England
Edward Bolland Osborn (1867–1938) was a British journalist, author and editor. He is perhaps best known as the editor of The Muse in Arms, an anthology of British war poetry published in November 1917.
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Athens became the capital of Mediterranean civilisation, the clearing-house of religions and moral ideas, whatever their source.
Whenever a card-game, or, for that matter, any indoor diversion, becomes too serious and scientific for the average mind it soon ceases to be fashionable. Whenever the professional cuts in, the man-of-the-word cuts off—to seek some new diversion which does not require its votaries to study a shelf-full of text-books.
... On several occasions I have seen a cuckoo mobbed by small birds, and it would be pleasant to think it was done as a protest on the part of decent bird-society against a disgusting anti-social parasite. But the probability is that they mistake the cuckoo for a hawk.
... Married people are in a position to make the closest study of one another's predilections, yet it is well known that many a marriage has been marred, or even unmade, by incompatibility of Christmas presents.
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