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Gelett Burgess

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Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse. He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he invented the blurb .

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1	The Goops
2	The Purple Cow
3	An Alphabet of Famous Goops
4	The Floorless Room
5	Floorless Room The

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A Womans Reason

An Alphabet of Famous Goops

Floorless Room The

My Feet

On Digital Extremities

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Quote Left Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
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Quote Left To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
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Quote Left The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Quote Left If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead.
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Quote Left The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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