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• Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twai
• Let us not be too particular: it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
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  -- Mark Twai...
• They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
  -- Mark Twai...