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“Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa Who knows most, knows least.”

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Book:Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien

Source: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien

“That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.”

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Author:Joseph Hall

“In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant to me making declarations of truth to them. A story can do that in kind of a Trojan-horse fashion.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.”

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Author:Gough Whitlam

“Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.”

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Book:Mozart: The Man and the Artist Revealed in His Own Words

Source: Mozart: The Man and the Artist Revealed in His Own Words