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BOHEMIAN

                                        January 17, 2009

 A quotation of a quotation,
 from Allen Churchill's
 "The Improper Bohemians" (1959):            IMPROPER_BOHEMIANS


  A lady named Ada Clare, known to New York as
  the Queen of Bohemia, had stated in 1860:

     The Bohemian is by nature, if not by habit,
     a cosmopolite, with a general sympathy for
     the fine arts, and for all things above and
     beyond convention.  The Bohemian is not,
     like the creature of society, a victim of
     rules and customs; he steps over them with
     an easy, graceful, joyous unconsciousness,
     guided by the principles of good taste and
     feeling.  Above all others, essentially, the
     Bohemian must not be narrow minded; if he
     be, he is degraded back to the position of
     mere worldling.

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