To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. – Edgar Allan Poe
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. – H. L. Mencken
If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke
Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon — the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it. – Lord Byron
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. – Charles Ives
