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‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’

There’s glory for you!

They gave it me,—for an un-birthday present.

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing.

‘What is the use of a book’, thought Alice,

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

The true University of these days is a collection of books.

History a distillation of rumour.

‘Genius’ (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Other voices, other rooms.

Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit The universal monarchy of wit.

A great book is like great evil.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

She walks in beauty, like the night

The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wife,

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.