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The Companie of Dansers - Company directed by Madeleine Inglehearn. Information about baroque and renaissance dance classes, hiring the company, and their publications.

Coranto - Group working on dance from mediaeval times to the late 18th century. Information about concerts, educational services, and publications.

The Early Dance Circle - Umbrella organization for early dance. Includes information about membership and events, and an overview of Western dance from the middle ages to the 19th century.

Kickback - Verna Wass teaches traditional and historical dance for schools and other groups: from medieval line dances to the 20th century. Also available for displays, ceilidhs and barn dances.

Nonsuch - History and dance company. Information about classes, performance and education services, and books and tapes for sale.

Bath Minuet Company - Information about dance classes, the annual Bath Georgian Ball, and photo galleries.

Blakeney Manor: Dance and Music - Includes an essay on the social and political importance of dance, and Rameau's description of the menuet ordinaire, translated by Essex, as well as information about 18th century songs and musicians.

Mercurius - London based dance and music company specializing in 17th and 18th century theatrical works such as ballets, comedies and tragedies.

The Hampshire Jane Austen Dancers - Information about classes and events.

The Jane Austen Dancers - Group based in South West England. Information about classes, public balls and performances.

Consort de Danse Baroque - Company directed by Philippa Waite. Information about classes, their summer school, and products for sale.

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The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Historical Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Historical "Courage is found in unlikely places." 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(Henry David Thoreau) The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Historical If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Historical A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Historical Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Historical The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Historical Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Historical Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Historical There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Historical That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Historical In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Historical Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Historical There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead Historical Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Historical He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Historical "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Historical
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