Quote of the day
Never Write an Advertisement Which You Wouldn't Want Your Own Family To Read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.
Thomas B. Thorpe

Born: 1815
Died: 1878 (aged 63)
Bio: Thomas Bangs Thorpe was an American antebellum humorist, painter, illustrator, and author best known for the short story "The Big Bear of Arkansas", which was first published in the periodical Spirit of the Times in 1841.
Known for:
- The Mysteries of the Backwoods






