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Whereas such good-humored roguish and half-knavish pranks are practised with personal risk for noble ends, the situations which arise from them are aesthetically and morally considered of the greatest value for the theatre; as, for instance, the opera of "The Water-Carrier" treats perhaps the happiest subject which we have ever yet seen upon the stage.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
These trees prevail here greatly, as they want neither water nor anything else, and grow with incredible rapidity. A thief, a liar, a glutton, a drunkard but you can't resent it; he has a naif, half-foolish, half-knavish buffoonery, a total want of self-respect, which disarms you. I sent him to the post to inquire for letters, and the postmaster had been tipsy over-night and was not awake.
Lady Lucie Duff Gordon - Letters from the Cape
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