| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40833 |
| QUOTATION: | One must not make oneself cheap here—that is a cardinal point—or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Austrian composer. letter, Sept. 5, 1781, to his father. The Letters of Mozart and His Family, ed. Emily Anderson, 2nd edition (1966).
The letter was sent from Vienna, complaining of the coarse linen shirts that Mozart was forced to wear. |
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