Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Edward Gibbon
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My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. -
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- Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
- The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
- Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.