Medieval marriages were entirely a matter of property, and, as everyone knows, marriage without love means love without marriage.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
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Kenneth Clark (15)
Birth: | 13th July, 1903 |
Death: | 21st May, 1983 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Author, Historian, Producer |
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