Oliver Herford 
The Complete Cynic 

’Wisdom may not be confined ‘Twixt covers of the dictionary, neither will it be defined; learning, you may quickly bury; wisdom—Soul and Life combined combined— lingers ever with the merry.’This Little Book of Wisdom Great it pleases us to dedicate to that Rampageous Reprobate— the World at Large. Yet as we mark his Stony Phiz and see him whoop and whirl and whiz, we can but cry—O Lord, why is the World at Large!