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Children giving concerts at ten are as pitiful as child acrobats
Drawn from what Leo Tolstoy said
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- Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910)
It is often said that it is horrible and pitiful to see little acrobats putting their legs over their necks, but it is not less pitiful to see children of 10 giving concerts, and it is still worse to see schoolboys of 10 who, as a preparation for literary work, have learnt by heart the exceptions to the Latin grammar.
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↗What Is Art? (1897-1898; Aylmer Maude translation)gutenberg.org
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