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“What is not worth saying sounds very well when it is sung.”
— Pierre Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville (1773), 1, 2; Figaro loq.
“The best days of the church have always been its singing days.”
— Theodore L. Cuyler, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 554
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To a Skylark" (1820).
“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”
— Matthew Prior, A Better Answer.
“Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.”
— Theocritus, Idyl, IX. Translation by Andrew Lang, Stanza 2.
“A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.”
— Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann. (1770).

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