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    “The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.”
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

    “I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.”
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    “Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure
    When with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”
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