The literary digest . under the same circumstances,because the ordinary man is not a crank and does not AVTitomusic like Handels. Paganini was one of the greatest cranks on record. He alsoplayed the violin extremely well. History is full of eminent cranks who followed various pro-fessions, the writer observes, and some of them were killedfor their crankiness. However, the crank with his little pecu-liarities we have always with us: A crank never seems to be able to recognize his peculiarities,unfortunately. No doubt Burns had a crank in mind when howished that some power would give us the gift
The literary digest . under the same circumstances,because the ordinary man is not a crank and does not AVTitomusic like Handels. Paganini was one of the greatest cranks on record. He alsoplayed the violin extremely well. History is full of eminent cranks who followed various pro-fessions, the writer observes, and some of them were killedfor their crankiness. However, the crank with his little pecu-liarities we have always with us: A crank never seems to be able to recognize his peculiarities,unfortunately. No doubt Burns had a crank in mind when howished that some power would give us the gift of seeing our-selves as others see us. A man is on the safe side, however,when he gets the idea into his head that his business is of nomore imi)ortauce to the world in general than the other mans business is. Too many musicians believe that it would be atragedy for them to give up music and go into the shoe busi-ness. But would it? Not if they could live with more com-fort and give their children a better
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