Maurice Baring Quotes
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If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
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There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.
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A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.
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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
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Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
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Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.
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