... I had rather sleep and eat and dance </br> Than hear a nightingale any day o' the week! - John Oliver Hobbes

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... I had rather sleep and eat and dance </br> Than hear a nightingale any day o' the week!

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About John Oliver Hobbes

Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (November 3, 1867 – August 13, 1906) was an Anglo-American novelist and dramatist who wrote under the pen-name of John Oliver Hobbes. Though her work fell out of print in the twentieth century, her first book Some Emotions and a Moral was a sensation in its day, selling eighty thousand copies in only a few weeks.

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Birth Name: Pearl Mary Teresa Richards
Alternative Names: Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Pearl (Mary Teresa) Craigie
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... unimaginable moments lack </br> Th' appropriate language we would give to them. </br> For daily talk and excellent occasions </br> There is a stock of sentiments all wound </br> Like skeins of wool around our tongues. </br> We hold them Deliciously tinged for every use.

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