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Edward Lear
(12 May 1812 - 29 Jan 1888)
English artist who is best known for his limericks and nonsense poetry. He was also a skilled artist, producing a the first series of coloured drawings of parrots (1832) to appear in England, and produced illustrations for natural history books.
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Science Quotes by Edward Lear (1 quote)
I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously, have lost all before they arrive at my age—& remain like Swift's Stulbruggs—cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:—whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge.
— Edward Lear
In Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear: the Life of a Wanderer (1969), 22.
See also:
- 12 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Lear's birth.