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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting."
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"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a heart is everlasting and magnificent."
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"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
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"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."
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"Nonsense and beauty have close connections."
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"No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful."
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"[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor."
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"The voice of beauty speaks softly, it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls."
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"The more you appreciate the things of beauty all around you, the more beautiful things will fill your life."
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"The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions."
Music

"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing."
Music

"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
Music

"Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty."
Beauty

"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
Progress

"I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him."
Son

"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains."
People

"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."
American

"Sincere composers believe in God."
God

"No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts."
Power
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