Maurice Baring Quotes

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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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On Pushkin's drama 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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All theories of what a good play is, or how a good play should be written, are futile. A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards makes an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.

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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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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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Here's the lily, here the rose
Her full chalice shall disclose;
Here's narcissus wet with dew,
Windflower and the violet blue.
Wear the garland I have made;
Crowned with it, put pride away;
For the wreath that blooms must fade;
Thou thyself must fade some day, Rhodocleia.

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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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Pale disease Shall linger by thy side, and thou shalt know Eternal autumn to thy day of death.

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