There is an apprenticeship to difficulty, which is better for
excellence sometimes than years of ease and comfort. A great
musician once said of a promising but passionless young singer
who was being educated for the stage: “She sings well, but she
lacks something which is everything. If she were married to a
tyrant who would maltreat her and break her heart, in six months
she would be the greatest singer in Europe.”--JAMES T.
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