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• ''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

  Source: Alice in wonderland

  ― Lewis Carroll
  British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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• Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

  ― Benjamin Britten
  English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• shillings
• composing
• house-the
• details
• windows
• bricks

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