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"He took the imperial hand and shook it in the glad-to-see-you-but-keep-off English fashion."
Frederick RolfeBrisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist cala — Frederick Rolfe
"Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties – French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time."
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always st
Frederick Rolfe
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Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric. He is known for the novel Hadrian the Seventh (1904).
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Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric. He is known for the novel Hadrian the Seventh (1904).
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"Its all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century cant possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries havent got a Common Denominator. They have. Its Human Nature."
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"Pray for the repose of His soul. He was so tired."
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"An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult."
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"That cold white candent voice which was more caustic than silver nitrate and more thrilling than a scream."
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"Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it."
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