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An American girl visited Beethoven's home, saw the piano at which he
wrote the Ninth Symphony, flung herself at it and banged out a few
notes.  `I suppose you get a lot of famous people in here', she said
to the guide.  `Ja, Fraulein.  Paderewski was here a few days ago.'
`Say, did he play too?'  `Nein, Faulein.  He thought he was not worthy.'
		-- Bruce Clavering, _Sunday Referee_, 9 Aug 1936.  (In
		   Frank S. Pepper, _Contemporary Biographical
		   Quotations_, pp. 223-4.)

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