“Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for, never intending to go beyond speculation, it costs nothing to have it magnificent.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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James Meade (1951), The theory of international economic policy, Vol. 1, p. 224; as cited in: Peter B. Kenen (1994), Exchange Rates and the Monetary System, p. 74

“If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.”
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Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -”

Nobel Lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1995/perl-lecture.html, Martin L. Perl, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995
Nobel prize lecture

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 5, The Rate of Interest, p. 46

Prime Minister's monthly press conference http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page5691.asp, 22 April 2004.
2000s

As quoted in The Life of Lord Kelvin (1910), by Silvanus Phillips, Volume 2, (2005 edition, . p. 866)