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Letter "P" » personages
«The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
personage, personages, scenes
«Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
farce, farces, forgot, Hegel, historic, personage, personages, remarks, second time, so to speak
«Everyone can play the mummer's part, and represent an honest personage on the stage; but inwardly, within his own bosom, where all is permitted us, where all is concealed, to keep a duel role there, that's the point»
«The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| Keywords:
apparent, carriages, eclipse, eclipsed, English nation, implicitly, influenced, personage, personages, procession, secrete, secreted, secretes, secreting, splendor, unconsciously
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