No blame whatever, one would say, if he had been less, copious, or not so subservient, in recording the lady's utterances; for though the wit of a woman may be terse, quite spontaneous, as this lady's assuredly was here and there, she is apt to spin it out of a Museful mind, at her toilette, or by the lonely fire, and sometimes it is imitative; admirers should beware of holding it up to the withering glare of print: she herself, quoting an obscure maximmonger, says of these lapidary sentences, that they have merely 'the value of chalk-eggs, which lure the thinker to sit,' and tempt the vacuous to strain for the like, one might add; besides flattering the world to imagine itself richer than it is in eggs that are golden.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
Her delicious chatter, and her Museful sparkle in listening, equally quickened every sense of life.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
Not so the Museful sage:-abroad he walks Contemplative, if haply he may find What cause controls the tempest's rage, or whence, Amidst the savage season, Winter smiles.
"The-Natural-History-of-Selborne"
White, Gilbert
