01UndatedAmericans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.Steven Stucky / quote ↗
Edsverb reading card◎MeditationsMarcus AureliusFree edition · US public domainMeric Casaubon translation (1634), later edited editionRelated reading on character and patience; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading card◇The EnchiridionEpictetusFree edition · US public domainThomas Wentworth Higginson translationRelated reading on character; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading card↗Essays — First SeriesRalph Waldo EmersonFree edition · US public domainProject Gutenberg English edition; First SeriesRelated reading on character; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗