• Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

  W. H. Auden
  American poet
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. communicate
2. beautifully
3. credible
4. stupid
5. person
6. should

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Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so. by : W. H. Auden

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