Great Throughts Treasury
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Lord Berners, fully Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, aka Gerald Tyrwhitt
British Composer of Classical Music, Novelist, Painter and Aesthete
"He that nothynge aduentureth nothynge getteth."
"There is a good deal to be said for frivolity. Frivolous people, when all is said and done, do less harm in the world than some of our philanthropisers and reformers. Mistrust a man who never has an occasional flash of silliness."