Maurice Baring quotes
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“Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.”
-- Maurice BaringSource : Maurice Baring (2014). “The Coat Without Seam”, p.58, House of Stratus
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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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“In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.”
-- Maurice BaringSource : An Outline of Russian Literature ch. 3 (1914) See Owen Meredith 1
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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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“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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“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.”
-- Maurice BaringSource : Maurice Baring (1909). “Orpheus in Mayfair: And Other Stories and Sketches”
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“Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.”
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“I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.”
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“A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.”
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Source : "Interview With “Kyle XY” Actress Jaimie Alexander". Interview with Linda Craddock, www.sliceofscifi.com. January 17, 2008.
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