At a rehearsal. The wife:

"How does that melody in Pagliacci go? Whistle it."

"One must not whistle on the stage; the stage is a temple."

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He died from fear of cholera.

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As like as a nail is to a requiem.

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A conversation on another planet about the earth a thousand years hence. "Do you remember that white tree?"

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