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— Edith Hamilton"There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful."
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No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
— Edith Hamilton
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