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Augustus on David Hare (dramatist)

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“None but a fool is always right.”
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“Smiles are the language of love.”
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“In oratory the will must predominate.”
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“Children always turn toward the light.”
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“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail.”
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“Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.”
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“To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin.”
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“Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour.”
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“The ultimate tendency of civilization is toward barbarism.”
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“The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”
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“Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.”
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“Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.”
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“Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather.”
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“Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, and yet both actively working together.”
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