Malcolm Massiah
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“You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.”
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“Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.”
― An Essay On Criticism
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.”
― An Essay On Criticism
“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”
― The Young Duke: A Moral Tale, Though Gay
― The Young Duke: A Moral Tale, Though Gay
“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
― Tancred
― Tancred
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