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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. On Lohengrin – Mark Twain

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. – Mark Twain

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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain

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How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. – Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. – Hannah More

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I never was an opera fan — about twenty-five musically supreme masterpieces in this curious medium apart. – Hans Keller

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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. – H. L. Mencken

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