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Socrates bemoaned those young'ns who had the audacity to read their Homer, instead of memorizing it.
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John Philip Sousa had only terrible things to say about... wait for it... player pianos.
I hear he liked to blow his own horn. And I confuse him with Adolphe Sax who nearly died multiple times before inventing the saxophone.