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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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	Lord Stowell
	(1745-1836) Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. p. 67, note - Baron English jurist, intimate with Dr. Johnson, judge of high court of admiralty.

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What constitutes a state? ...... . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. ...... . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.

On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

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