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I have read your book and much like it.

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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

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Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.

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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

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I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

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Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.)

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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

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