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Re: Und jetzt mal Butter bei die Fische: Wer ist "hunter@netzterrorist.com"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hunter)
Thu Jan 24 16:42:39 2008
To: sapr3-news@mit.edu
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:38:23 GMT
From: "Hunter" <hunter@netzterrorist.com>
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to make use of it. But then we remember it, for it is
characteristic of such persons that we do not say of them that they are fine
speakers, when it is not a question of oratory, and that we say of them that
they are fine speakers, when it is such a question.
It is therefore false praise to give a man when we say of him, on his entry,
that he is a very clever poet; and it is a bad sign when a man is not asked
to give his judgement on some verses.
35. We should not be able to say of a man, "He is a mathematician," or "a
preacher," or "eloquent"; but that he is "a gentleman." That universal
quality alone pleases me. It is a bad sign when, on seeing a person, you
remember his book. I would prefer you to see no quality till you meet it and
have occasion to use it (Ne quid minis),[3] for fear some one quality
prevail and designate the man. Let none think him a fine speaker, unless
oratory be in question, and then let them think it.
36. Man is full of wants: he loves only those who can satisfy them all.
"This one is a good mathematician," one will say. But I have nothing to do
wit
