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Artemus Ward


Born
in Waterford, Maine, The United States
April 26, 1834

Died
March 06, 1867

Genre
Short Stories


Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Pen name of Charles Farrar Browne

American humorist Charles Farrar Browne, pen name Artemus Ward, used backwoods characters and local dialect to comment on current events in his fictional tales of an itinerant showman.

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Average rating: 3.45 · 128 ratings · 23 reviews · 189 distinct works
The Complete Works of Artem...
3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1899 — 148 editions
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The Complete Works of Artem...
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Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100...
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The Complete Works of Artem...
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Artemus Ward - His Book
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Quotes by Artemus Ward  (?)
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“For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.”
― Artemus Ward, The Complete Works of Artemus Ward
tags: humorous, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-max-beerbohm
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“It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.”
― Artemus Ward
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“Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?”
― Artemus Ward
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