"Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person."

-- Diane Johnson

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“The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!”
“Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.”
“The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.”
“I always say beauty is only sin deep.”

Source : 'Reginald' (1904) 'Reginald's Choir Treat'
“Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue”
“Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.”
“I think I just liked the idea that I could make something, that I could communicate some sort of idea through music.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.”

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