Gentleman Dancing Master

Famous quotes containing the words gentleman, dancing and/or master:

    ... no gentleman lies, on any occasion, with unmixed pleasure. He feels, rather, as if he had put on rags.
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    Carmen: You’re cute. I like you.
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    The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.
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