Roman Emperor Frederick

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“My first childish doubt as to whether God could really be a good Protestant was suggested by my observation of the deplorable fact that the best voices available for combination with my mother’s in the works of the great composers had been unaccountably vouchsafed to Roman Catholics.”
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“But since ‘tis only Fred,
Who was alive and is dead,
There’s no more to be said.”
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