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It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression – at least, not in the beginning – and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.
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"Music in America", Harper's Monthly Magazine, February 1895.

 

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