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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (1601), Act I, scene i.In context

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• Music makes one feel so romantic⁠—at least it always gets on one’s nerves⁠—which is the same thing nowadays.

  Oscar Wilde1854–1900

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• Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  ?UnattributedOften credited to Steve Martin

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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