While engaged in an after dinner smoke at one of the parties, Colonel Weber who had a reputation as a rake said to Disraeli, ”Take care, my good fellow, I lost the most beautiful woman in the world by smoking,”and he added that the custom has prevented more liasons than the dread of a duel [...]
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Disraeli At The Parties
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Amadeus-1984
Posted in entertainment, tagged 100 Best Films, classical music, genius, jealousy, revenge, Vienna on September 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What is in a man that his reputation outlives his narrow circumstances,- misfortunes and triumphs alike, and should glow all the more brighter when he has hit the dust? What is in him that his genius is more clearly understood in the imaginations of generations for whom it was not intended in the first place? [...]
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