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Frederick Rolfe Biography

Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (22 July 1860 – 25 October 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric.

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Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties – French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.

Calamity, Novelty, Soft, Twenties, War

Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.

Abnormal, Man, Men, People, Personality, Separately

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

Knows, Liars, Recreation, Students, Vermin, Wall

An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.

Insult, Sensitive, Soul, Vain

It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.

Centuries, Common, Denominator, Human, Speak, Two

Truth is tarter than taradiddles; and nothing is tarter, terser, than truth on the track of tired trash in a trance.

Nothing, Tarter, Tired, Track, Truth Is

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