The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde
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Are quite expensive.
COUNT BARDI [aside] There it comes indeed. DUKE So be not honest; eccentricity Is not a thing should ever be encouraged, Although, in this dull stupid age of ours, The most eccentric thing a man can do Is to have brains, then the mob mocks at him; And for the mob, despise it as I do, I hold its bubble praise and windy favours In such account, that popularity Is the one insult I have never suffered. MAFFIO [aside] He has enough of hate, if he needs that. DUKE Have prudence; in your dealings with the world Be not too hasty; act on the second thought, First impulses are generally good. |
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