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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast — but not the unmusical one.

— Alexander Chase Sandra Lee Stuart (1980)

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Comment: The statement "Music has charms to soothe a savage breast," is a not uncommon 19th century saying. For example Cyprian Cope (1899) in Arabesques: A Perspective, p. 108 stated, that : The world of letters has long known that ' music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.' But few of the unmusical, wholly untutored that...

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