Speech is human silence is divine yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

This world after all our science and sciences is still a miracle wonderful inscrutable magical and

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle, wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more to whosoever will think of it.

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    An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

    Every savage can dance.

    Every savage can dance.

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    One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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