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Maurice Baring

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Also known as Hon. Maurice Baring, Major Hon. Maurice Baring

British dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist (1874-1945)

Person · Open Library

Works
96

Top works

  • Tinker's Leave
  • Daphne Adeane
  • Coat Without Seam
  • Lonely Lady of Dulwich
  • Darby and Joan

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
United States

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Listeners
1
Total plays
9

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Quotes

  • In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
  • Lord Saint-Edith said he couldn't understand people thinking Bacon had written Shakespeare's plays. If they said Shakespeare had written the works of Bacon as a pastime he could understand it.
  • [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.
  • Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
  • 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.
  • 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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