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The Art Of Ragtime: Form And Meaning Of An Original Black American Art

by William John Schafer

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Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature

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Rachmaninoff (Biography Index Reprint)

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“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

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“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

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“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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