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— Doris Lessing"The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid."
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Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.
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