“…the violin — that most human of all instruments…”
Louisa May Alcott book Jo's Boys
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“If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.”
— Helen Keller, book The Story of My Life
Part II: Letters (1887 - 1901) TO MRS. LAURENCE HUTTON Wrentham, February 20, 1898.
The Story of My Life (1903)
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