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Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875 – 1956)


Popular English novelist and humorist of the early 20th century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Edward the Confessor
Slept under the dresser.
When that began to pall,
He slept in the hall.
Bentley quotes
I can only say that you must have totally renounced all trust in the operations of the human reason; an attitude which, while it is bad Christianity and also infernal nonsense, is oddly enough bad Positivism too, unless I misunderstand that system.
Bentley
That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile — that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.




It was a weakness of Voltaire's
To forget to say his prayers,
And one which to his shame
He never overcame.
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