Humbert Wolfe CB CBE (January 5, 1885, Milan, Italy - January 5, 1940), was an Italian-born English poet, man of letters and civil servant, from a Jewish family background, his father being a German Jew (Martin Wolff) and his mother an Italian Jew (Consuela, nee Terraccini). He was one of the most popular authors of the 1920s. He is now remembered for his epigram:
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