“Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.”

— Ludwig Van Beethoven

To Mme. Streicher, in 1817, or 1818, after having dismissed an otherwise good housekeeper because she had told a falsehood to spare his feelings. in Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words http://www.fullbooks.com/Beethoven-the-Man-and-the-Artist-as-Revealed2.html by Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst
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German Romantic composer 1770–1827

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