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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
george eliot— Felix Holt, ch. 15 (1866)
“You drink only sparingly. Is the beer too thin?” “No at all. I merely wish to keep my wits about me. It would not do if both of us became addled, and later woke up in doubt as to who was who.”
jack vance— Chapter 6, section 4 (p. 447)
We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?
rudyard kipling— Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 43-45
