Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
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Related The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. SHANE L. KOYCZAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that? MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. JERRY SPINELLI Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
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