Frederick Rolfe Quotes
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Truth is tarter than taradiddles; and nothing is tarter, terser, than truth on the track of tired trash in a trance.
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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.
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It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.
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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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The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.
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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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