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The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.

She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.

A Piker always has his entire Stock of Goods in the Show Window.

He can always pick out the Right Kind for the Other Fellow.

Early to Bed and Early to Rise is a Bad Rule for any one who wishes to become acquainted with our most Prominent and Influential People.

True Bills (1904)

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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