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“Of our greatest acts we are ignorant—.”

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source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1955), 460.

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notes: June 1869 letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“What pleased me the most was a fellow who came up to me after a concert in Chicago and said, ‘You know, there’s nobody in this whole country who hasn’t been touched by your music in some way.’ That really made me feel good.”

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source: “Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99,” by Richard Severo, The New York Times, August 2, 2010.

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notes: this quote originally appeared in a 1981 article on Miller in the New York Times

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