HUMILITY
A young American student visiting the Beethoven museum in Bonn was fascinated by the piano on which Beethoven had composed some of his greatest works. She asked the museum guard if she could play a few bars on it; she accompanied the request with a lavish tip, and the man agreed. The girl sat down at the piano and tinkled out the opening of the Moonlight Sonata. As she was leaving, she said to the guard, “I suppose all the great pianists who come here want to play on that piano.” The guard shook his head; “Well, Paderewski was here a few years ago and he said he wasn’t worthy to touch it.” Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
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