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The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps.

— Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

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That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile — that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

Trent's Own Case (1936)

Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?

Trent Intervenes (1938)

Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.

Trent Intervenes (1938)

When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

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