Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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