Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.
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When her name is mentioned in the opera history books we will recall that vibrant, soaring tone-that and the blinding, high-beam-headlight smile that she flashed on her fans at each curtain call.
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