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Monday, January 20, 2025

January 20, 2025

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"...Italian opera, an exotick and irrational entertainment..."
—Samuel Johnson


"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
—Emma in Jane Austen's Emma


"[Mozart's music] is as good an excuse for mankind’s existence as we shall ever encounter."
—HC Robbins Landon


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