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Famous Quotes By Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

Famous quotes made by the American journalist, and short story writer, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. He was born on June 23, 1876 in Paducah, Kentucky, and died March 11, 1944.

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I've just learned about his illness; let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

His words were long enough to run in serials.

Every line in her face is the line of least resistance.

A capacity for self-pity is one of the last things that any woman surrenders.

Women now insist on having all the prerogatives of the oak and all the perquisites of the clinging vine.

Save whatever is current at the moment, except currency.

Men are vain, but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller salaries for the same job.

I once knew a fellow who spoke a dialect with an accent.

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

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