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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone

I am fit for nothing but literature

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject