Thunder on the Left (1925)
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Among the notionable dictes of antique Rome was the fancy that when men heard thunder on the left the gods had somewhat of speciall advertisement to impart.
Then did the prudent pause and lay down their affaire to studye what omen Jove intended.
—Sir Eustace Peachtree
The Dangers of This Mortall Life.
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The undertaking a comedy not merely sentimental was very dangerous.
On parla des passions. "Ah! qu'elles sont funestes!" disait Zadig.—"Ce sont les vents qui enflent les voiles du vaisseau," repartit l'ermite: "elles le submergent quelquefois; mais sans elles il ne pourrait voguer. La bile rend colère et malade; mais sans la bile l'homme ne saurait vivre. Tout est dangereux ici-bas, et tout est nécessaire."
"Your mind had to be tormented and fevered and exalted before you could see a god."
"It was cruel of you to do this," she said.
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