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NUMBER:9560
QUOTATION:Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
ATTRIBUTION:Samuel Butler (1835–1902), British author. speech, Feb. 27, 1895, Somerville Club, London. Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 310 (1951).
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