Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.

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Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

222

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.

175

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

142

One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

135

Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.

91

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

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