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«The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.»

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: book, Books not, contains, dwells, echoed, echoes, echoing, just as, suggesting, suggests, tones, tone up

«It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.»

Author: Joseph Priestley (Chemist, Clergyman) | About: Communication | Keywords: everyone else, shouting, speaking in, tones

«Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.»

Author: Judith S. Marin | About: Arguments, Children, Education, Parents | Keywords: arguments, foreign language, foreign languages, inducement, inducements, respectful, surprised, tones

«Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.»

Author: Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer) | Keywords: About me, notes, roar, tones, tone down

«Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.»

Author: Terry Pratchett (Writer) | About: Fantasy | Keywords: fantasy, muscles, tones

«These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus, popular tales or travel.»

Author: Henri Matisse (Artist, Painter) | Keywords: circus, crystallization, resulted, tales, The Circus, tones, vivid

«A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.»

Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: harmless, prevents, soured, souring, sours, tones, tone up, wholesome

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