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I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

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A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.

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Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it.

Horse, Leaving, Long, Stable

Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the fruit of which is a strained and unsure execution, a false diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman.

Art, Diamond, Fruit, Horse, Practice, True

Above all, a horse should never be chastised out of foul mood or anger, but always with complete dispassion.

Complete, Dispassion, Horse, Mood, Should

The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study.

Art, Foundation, Horse, Nature, Study

Others make a point of trying to attain the precision and poise they see in those who have the ability to choose from a great number of horses those with [. . . ] qualities found in only a very small number of horses. This leads to a circumstance in which these imitators of such studied poise mortify the spirit of a noble horse, and remove from it all of the goodness of temperament Nature has given it.

Attain, Goodness, Horse, Numbers, Precision, Quality
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