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Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memo...  
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.  
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without ...  
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and spli...  
In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magni...  
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible ...  
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspond...   Society
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and...  
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It...  
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.  
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.  
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and ...  
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furn...  
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in t...  
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn b...