Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great

of the Great

Together With Numerous Anecdotes Illustrative
of the Characters of People and
Their Rulers

COMPILED BY

CHARLES A. SHRINER

One Anecdote of a Man is Worth a Volume of Biography-CHANNING
Great Men, taken up in any way, are Profitable Company-CARLYLE

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

NEW YORK AND LONDON

1918

REPUBLISHED BY GALE RESEARCH COMPANY, BOOK TOWER, DETROIT. 1969