Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.
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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
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The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
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MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
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In this country, the village should in some respects take the place of the nobleman of Europe. It should be the patron of the fine arts. It is...
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