Frank Frankfort Moore 
According to Plato [EPUB ebook] 

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No one who has not been bankrupt at least twice could afford to be so careful about his dress as Mr. Richmond is, ‘ said Josephine.’He admits a solitary bankruptcy, ‘ said Amber. ‘Bankruptcy is the official recognition of genius.”It certainly is the shortest way to distinction, ‘ said Josephine. ‘Bankruptcy’s a sort of English Legion of Honour, isn’t it?—a kind of bourgeois decoration.”To genius, ‘ said Amber, with the nod of one who completes a quotation that some one else has begun. ‘Mr. Richmond is really very clever.”Now you contradict yourself—a moment ago you said he was a genius—and being a genius is just the opposite to being clever, ‘ laughed Josephine. ‘Is this your syllogism: Geniuses become bankrupt, Mr. Richmond becomes bankrupt, therefore he is a genius?”Well, that wasn’t quite what was in my mind. I suppose that to have the Homeric attribute of nodding scarcely makes one a Homer?’
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9786050434231 ● File size 1.7 MB ● Publisher Frank Frankfort Moore ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5110415 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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