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> [“Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It would have shown the white birches pale and shivering in a sudden ague, and here and there an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/daylight-would-have-shown-a-wilderness-weathered-and-blowzy-a-wanton/)

[Irvin S. Cobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvin-s-cobb/)

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## More by Irvin S. Cobb

> [“Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It would have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/daylight-would-have-shown-a-wilderness-weathered-and-blowzy-a-wanton/)

[Irvin S. Cobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvin-s-cobb/)

> [Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/reelfoot-is-and-has-always-been-a-lake-of-mystery-in-places-it-is/)

[Irvin S. Cobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvin-s-cobb/)

> [If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/if-writers-were-good-businessmen-they-d-have-too-much-sense-to-be/)

[Irvin S. Cobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvin-s-cobb/)

> [You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/you-had-to-hate-the-colonel-a-whole-lot-to-keep-from-loving-him/)

[Irvin S. Cobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvin-s-cobb/)

> [A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/a-funeral-eulogy-is-a-belated-plea-for-the-defense-delivered-after/)

[Irvin S. Cobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvin-s-cobb/)

> [I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/i-ve-just-learned-about-his-illness-let-s-hope-it-s-nothing-trivial/)

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> [An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/an-epitaph-is-a-belated-advertisement-for-a-line-of-goods-that-has/)

[Irvin S. Cobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvin-s-cobb/)

> [If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/if-a-woman-likes-another-woman-she-s-cordial-if-she-doesn-t-like-her/)

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> [“By now the moon was well down. Over the tree tops they had seen her cruise across the heavens to strike on a reef…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/by-now-the-moon-was-well-down-over-the-tree-tops-they-had-seen-her/)

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> [A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/a-good-storyteller-is-a-person-with-a-good-memory-and-hopes-other/)

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> [Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/of-all-american-cities-of-whatever-size-the-most-friendly-on/)

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> [Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/humor-is-merely-tragedy-standing-on-its-head-with-its-pants-torn/)

[Irvin S. Cobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvin-s-cobb/)

> [Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/men-are-vain-but-they-won-t-mind-women-working-so-long-as-they-get/)

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> [Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/golf-a-young-man-s-vice-and-an-old-man-s-penance/)

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> [“He also could feel it in his nostrils like an impalpable soot; the emanations of the millions about them, packed away at night in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/he-also-could-feel-it-in-his-nostrils-like-an-impalpable-soot-the/)

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