“The golden mean, the truth, is no longer recognized or value…”

“The golden mean, the truth, is no longer recognized or valued. To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it, or so incomprehensible that it pleases simply because no sensible man can comprehend it.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Title: Wikiquote: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Context

in a letter to his father, 1782

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart

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