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Maurice Baring Quotes

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

Maurice Baring
Rude, Manners, Ifs
Maurice Baring (2014). “The Coat Without Seam”, p.58, House of Stratus

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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Thinking, Giving, Looks

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring
Memories, Artist, Mind

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 Baring
Wise, Pain, Brave
Maurice Baring (1909). “Orpheus in Mayfair: And Other Stories and Sketches”

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 Baring
Doe, Genius, Talent
An Outline of Russian Literature ch. 3 (1914) See Owen Meredith 1

Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

Maurice Baring
People, Advice, Contradicting

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.

Maurice Baring
Play, Theatre, Boards

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.

Maurice Baring
Fun, Games, Play
Maurice Baring (2014). “The Puppet Show Of Memory”, p.64, House of Stratus

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