Thoinot Arbeau quotes
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“... if you desire to marry you must realize that a mistress is won by the good temper and grace displayed while dancing... for dancing is practiced to reveal whether lovers are in good health and sound of limb, after which they are permitted to kiss their mistresses in order that they may touch and savor one another thus to ascertain if they are shapley or emit an unpleasant odor as of bad meat. Therefore, from this standpoint, quite apart from the many other advantages to be derived from dancing, it becomes an essential to a well-ordered society.”
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“In dancing the Alman the young men sometimes steal the damsels from their partners and he who has been robbed seeks to obtain another damsel. But I do not hold with this behaviour because it may lead to quarrels and heart burning.”
-- Thoinot ArbeauSource : Thoinot Arbeau (1967). “Orchesography”, p.127, Courier Corporation
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“A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.”
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“Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.”
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Source : Adam Thirlwell (2004). “Politics”, Random House
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“The last kiss is given to the void.”
Source : Aidan Higgins (1997). “Flotsam and jetsam”
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969.
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