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Henri Pruniéres commenting on the music of Claude Debussy: He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the wavessubleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting. Achille-Claude Debussy		Thursday Nov 21, 2024
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. Phillip Dormer Stanhope

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	Phillip Dormer Stanhope
	(1694-1773) Earl of Chesterfield. Letters to his Son, 1748.

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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who need it the most, always like it the least. The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous and the expense damnable. A chapter of accidents. There is a Spanish proverb, which says very justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are'.