"Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea."

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Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

— August Bournonville