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"At the Cole School, where they had community singing
every morning the teacher noticed that
Jack
London remained silent. She asked him why. He replied
that she didn't know how to sing, that she would
spoil his voice because she flatted. The teacher
dispatched him to the principal to be punished. The
principal sent him back with a note saying that he could
be excused, but that he would have to write a composition
each morning for fifteen minutes of singing. Jack
ascribes his ability to write a thousand words every
morning to the habit formed in this class."
- Irving Stone
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