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We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make 14 million...
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My friends are my estate.
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No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It...
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by...
Quote #28179
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus’s-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and...
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life...
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,...
Quote #20755
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Quote #20250
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend...