Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong - they may be mistaken.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

• People
• Soul
• Musical
• Mistaken
• Maybe
• Receptive

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• People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong - they may be mistaken.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
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  • Soul
  • Musical