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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"

"One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled."

"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."

"As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary."

"Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind."
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