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Irvin Cobb, His Book

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Damn the speeches, go ahead and eat.

—Admiral Farragut

From somewhere in England, April something, 19-5.

In my opinion Irvin Cobb is one of the —— —— that ever lived!

—K. of K.

“Cobb’s Anatomy” to me is bigger, is funnier, than “John Brown’s Body.”

—An Admirer

Dear Cobb:

Always leave the table a little bit sober.

Yours, —Ralph W. Emerson

Irvin S. Cobb:

Appetite and capacity, now and forever, one and inseparable.

—D. Webster

Illustration from Irvin Cobb, His Book: Friendly Tributes upon the Occasion of a Dinner Tendered to Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April Twenty-Fifth, MCMXV

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