“To admire is, to me, questionless, the highest pleasure of life.”

—  William Rowan Hamilton

Letter to the Marquess of Northampton (June 17, 1838), in Robert Perceval Graves, Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton Vol. 2 (1885) https://archive.org/details/lifeofsirwilliam02gravuoft, pp. 260-261.

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