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music has charms to soothe a savage breast

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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast

Music has the power to enchant even the roughest of people. This proverb comes from the play The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve, an English author of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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