Quote#Happiness
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no…
Quote bySamuel Pepys · 1633–1703
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Master of University College, Oxford; published in J. R. Tanner (ed.) Private Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703 (1926) p. 109. (1700).
English (original)
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.
— Samuel Pepys
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