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Such an Alceste was a standing nuisance and reproach to the rustic Acastes and Clitandres of the Lincoln bursary. They might have tolerated his intellect and overlooked his industry, if his intellect and his industry had not spoiled his sociability. But irony and the ars tacendi are not favourite ingredients in the boon companion.
"I deny that," said the curate; "tace is the imperative mood from tacco, to keep silent. Tacco, taces, tacui, tacere, tacendi, tacendo tac " "Ned, go on with your story, and never mind that deep larning of his he's almost cracked with it," said the superior: "go on, and never mind him."
There was nobody on whom one might so surely count in the course of an hour's talk for some stroke of irony or pungent suggestion, or, at the worst, some significant, admonitory, and almost luminous manifestation of the great ars tacendi. In spite of his copious and ordered knowledge, Pattison could hardly be said to have an affluent mind.
It is a mode of paralysis a cacoethes tacendi the one form that malady takes in me. Well, all passed over very successfully. Palermo, where we stayed eight days, was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world it dreams away its life in the concha d'oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas.
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