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- I have sat through an Italian opera, till, for sheer pain, and inexplicable
- anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded streets, to
- solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow, and get rid of
- the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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- Charles Lamb 1775-1834, from Essays of Elia
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