"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them."
"I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children."
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Source: Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of Glasgow Nov. 19, 1873.
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