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...books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions
"...Italian opera, an exotick and irrational entertainment..."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"[Mozart's music] is as good an excuse for mankind’s existence as we shall ever encounter."
—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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