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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi . . .
Source: Advice to his wife Anna
-- Gustav Mahler, (Jul 7 1860-1911), Austrian composer, conductor; He is noted for his ten symphonies and various songs with orchestra, which drew together many different strands of Romanticism.