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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."
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Maurice Baring[T]here is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played fo — Maurice Baring
"[T]here 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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Maurice Baring
Maurice Baring
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Maurice Baring was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent, with particular knowledge of Russia. During World War I, Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force.
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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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"Lord Saint-Edith said he couldnt understand people thinking Bacon had written Shakespeares plays. If they said Shakespeare had written the works of Bacon as a pastime he could understand it."
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"Thank God Im alive In the light of the Sun! Its a quarter to five; Thank God Im alive! Now the hum of the hive Of the world has begun, Thank God Im alive In the light of the Sun!"
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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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"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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