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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is...
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The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour’s discourse a...
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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which...
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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without...
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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
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Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that...