Today’s quote comes from Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991); an American writer and illustrator, better known under his pen name Dr. Seuss for his highly popular and weird children’s books, with over 600 million copies sold and translated into more than 20 languages.

Before earning fame and acclaim for such gems like If I Ran the Zoo, Horton Hears a Who!, The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Green Eggs and Ham, Geisel was an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity and Life magazines, a political cartoonist and he worked as an illustrator for various advertising campaigns.

Green Eggs and Ham was particularly successful. Originally published in 1960, it was the fourth best-selling English-language children’s book of all time. People read it here and there, in a house, with a mouse, in a box with a fox, in a car, on a train, on a boat with a goat, in a tree…but not in the dark, or in the rain, because that would be silly.

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