Is it a proof that the heart is more true because the mouth more frequently declares it? Is it always found that the most exaggerated and hyperbolical are the truest accounts? or is not, on the contrary, the truth always simple and always plain? I should feel myself debased were I to endeavour to gain your heart by many and glowing descriptions; I should debase your idea in my mind were I for a moment to think you could be affected by them....
What can I call myself to convey most perfectly my affection and love to you? Can I, or can truth, say more than that for this world I am yours?
M. Faraday
BENCE JONES, Henry (1870a): The Life and Letters of Faraday, 1st edition, 2 volumes, London.
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