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encaramelle21 января 2024 г.The audience probably thought it was a duet. When Aunt Agatha sits down to the piano she makes quite enough noise for two people
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The world is wide, and has many marvel- lous people in it. Don’t take away from me the one person that makes life absolutely lovely to me
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Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
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It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-edu- cate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well informed man,—that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, and everything priced above its proper value.
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The harmony of soul and body, — how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is bestial, an ideality that is void.
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If one puts forward an idea to a real Englishman,— always a rash thing to do,— he never dreams of considering whether the idea is right or wrong. The only thing he considers of any importance is whether one believes it one’s self.
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I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
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