“O you miserable fool, what I shit is better than anything you can do.”

— Ludwig Van Beethoven

Original: (de) Ach du erbärmlicher Schuft, was ich scheisse ist besser, als was du je gedacht.
Source: Written in the margin of Gottfried Weber's negative review of Wellington's Victory in Beethoven's copy of Cäcilia (August 1825) https://books.google.com/books?id=KBuLcEJpX4sC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77

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German Romantic composer 1770–1827

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