Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
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