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"To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat."

"If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know."

"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."

"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."

"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."

"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure."

"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."

"Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of service and attendance, of fame and renown, and the like, yet he maketh no claim to any of those glories, but only to the glory of inquisition of truth; for so he saith expressly, "The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out;" as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight to hide His works, to the end to have them found out; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honour than to be God's playfellows in that game."
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