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...Tupper's shrewd self-advertising carried Proverbial Philosophy through 50 editions between 1838 and its last printing...
Poet Martin Farquhar Tupper heard the shocking news and immediately produced a suitable poem: 0 dastard! Thus to strike that brow
...following day, Tupper's loyal outcry was in the hands of a job printer, and within 48 hours 100 copies were on their way to the Queen, to Tupper's friends and to newspapers in Britain...
...Return Mail. The Edgar Guest of Victorian England, Tupper could produce verse for any occasion, and with facility that was the wonder of his time. He was tipped out of a carriage once, and promptly turned out a verse on the moral lessons to be learned in carriage accidents ("0 trials and troubles and losses in life!/ What are ye but simples to strengthen my soul?"). Asked to compose an eclogue to be recited by the Queen's daughters at her birthday party, Tupper sent the lines by return mail. His practice of sending poems to the newspapers...
...champion liar of the world, for the first time since 1929, was not an American. The Burlington Liars Club awarded its yearly title to L. W. Tupper of Patricia, Alberta. His story: a northwester blew away every one of the 2,000 pestholes an Alberta rancher had dug last summer and carried them clear out of the country. After bouncing over 125 miles of cactus they were useless-so full of holes they wouldn't hold dirt any more...