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“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.”

Stills Together Sound Lovers Giants Sand Feds Frightened Sail Venice Descendants Pigeons Byron Flapping

Author:Anais Nin

“By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.”

Knows Mind Sound Music Fire Lovers Equal Lows Wounds Warrior Temper Animated Bleeding

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author

“I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.”

Ifs Sound Lovers Band Guitar Punk Music Lover

Author:Benjamin Booker

“lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.”

Wells Art Sound Numbers Known Bears Lovers Perfection Repeats Nonsense Echoes Well Known Impatient Tautology

Book:The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author

Source: The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author

“I'm a huge lover of going to the theater and having that experience of people in the room. Any time you go to an experience like this, you hear it in a different way because sound systems are different.”

People Way Different Sound Rooms Huge Lovers Theater Different Ways Sound Systems

Author:Sandra Bullock