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“Tis yours with breeding to refine the age,
To chasten wit, and moralise the stage.”
― The Conscious Lovers: A Dance of Love and Duty in 18th Century London
To chasten wit, and moralise the stage.”
― The Conscious Lovers: A Dance of Love and Duty in 18th Century London
“He understood, for instance, that to rise by the pleasure of the people is the only way of reaching stable eminence, and that to accomplish this, noble qualities must be exhibited. For whilst men singly may be swayed by vicious appeals, collectively they will respond only to appeals of virtue.”
― Bellarion
― Bellarion
“Greed seemed to Bellarion, that morning, the dominant impulse of worldly life. He saw it and all the stark, selfish evil of it wherever he turned his retrospective glance.”
― Bellarion
― Bellarion
“Woman is a fair image in a pool; he who leaps at her is sunk.”
― The Black Swan
― The Black Swan
“Yet patience, sirs, can be exceeded until from a virtue it becomes a vice. I have more respect for an advocate of rash courses’—and he inclined his head slightly to Count Spigno—‘than for those who practise an excessive caution whilst time is slipping by.”
― Bellarion
― Bellarion
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