Source: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 1
“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible a plea as baseball in Italian.”
Clinical Notes, George Jean, Nathan, January 1926, American Mercury magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=k330MmVjym8C&q="Opera+in+English+is+in+the+main+just+about+as+sensible+a+plea+as+baseball+in+Italian"&pg=PA107#v=onepage,
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