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" The Grand Seignior, to whom I was introduced by the Imperial, Russian, and French ambassadors, employed me to negotiate a matter of great importance at Grand Cairo, and which was of such a nature that it must ever remain a secret.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe
I will stoop at it, seize it, and fly away; and now that I may easily reach the large tree in my own mountain from this country of Kauthambi, play a soft and simple air, O leader of the orchestra!"
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2) by Carl Engel
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