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“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.”
“There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.”
“It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will b...”
“Whenever we read a book we love, we change it, to some extent. We read into it our own interpretations, and the meanings which the words have taken on in our time. If a book is so rigid that it can...”
“Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.”