Humbert Wolfe — a remark

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“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

Friendship is shown by forgiving embarrassment rather than defining someone by a single foolish moment · Epigram, commonly attributed to Humbert Wolfe

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Humbert Wolfe

5 January 1885–5 January 1940

On the fifth of January 1885, in the bustling commercial heart of Milan, a child was born who would become one of Britain's most popular poets of the 1920s, yet whose name today is remembered primarily for a single, sardonic epigram. Humbert Wolfe was born as Umberto Wolff in Milan, Italy, to Martin Wolff, a German…

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