Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Irvin S. Cobb

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• If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Good
  • Sense
  • Too Much