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" That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. "
Edgar Allan Poe
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" There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. "
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" I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. "
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