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Music is the universal language of mankind.

— John Wilson

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Would you repeat that again, sir, for it soun's sae sonorous that the words droon the ideas?

Nae wut without a portion o' impertinence.

O for a Booke and a shadie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out;
With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cries all about.
Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde;
For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke, is better to me than Golde.

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

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