Quotes with compositions

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• A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

  Anne Seward
  English poet (1742 - 1809)
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• Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

  Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

  Paul Klee
  Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• professional
• compositions
• particularly
• prerequisite
• expression
• sculptures

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