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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

History, a distillation of rumour.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.