Word: baseborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what would have remained for the nobler, the better thing?" His heredity predisposed him to tuberculosis and alcoholism while enteritis, syphilis, weak eyes were potential added maladies. His deafness, believes Author Rolland, was due to overworked ears. Beethoven died of cirrhosis of the liver. He scorned the feeble, ignorant, baseborn, wellborn, and those who loved him. His most devoted friends were "instruments on which I play when I please." To the kind Lichnowsky he wrote: "Prince, what you are, you are by the accident of birth; what I am. I am of myself. There are and there will be thousands...
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