Isaac Bickerstaffe or Bickerstaff (26 September 1733 - 1812?) was an Irish playwright and Librettist.
Read more about Isaac Bickerstaffe: Early Life, Success, Exile, Selected Works
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“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference—asking good questions—made me become a scientist.”
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“How happy is the sailor’s life,
From coast to coast to roam;
In every port he finds a wife,
In every land a home.”
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