SOUS A SAYINGS.
The following art a few of Couya's sayings:— "A musical instrument is a good deal like a gun—much depends on the man behind it." "The world docs not care a rap for your name: it cares only for'what yen can do to please, amuse, or instruct." "Music's golden tongue speaks to all alike, and Heaven help him who cannot understand." "Poet and. painter, novelist and historian, maid and matron, youth and man, aro alike worshippers at the :hrino of melody." "Next to being born, the most important event of my life was when I began the study of music." "Let us hope that the number of those who find no responsive chord in tho welling tones of music aro of the very, very few." "From my earliest remembrance I wanted to be a musician, and I have no recollection of ever wanting to bo anything eise."' "Music, mathematics, and babies aro tbo only original packages." Sixty years ago the jwpulation of the United kingdom was only 27,C00,0u0. In 1901 it was returned at 11,158,721. It is now estimated at l'),50S,(IOO.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1166, 17 June 1911, Page 9
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183SOUS A SAYINGS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1166, 17 June 1911, Page 9
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