# Quote — George Eliot, Adam Bede

> Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

- Author: [George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md)
- Book: [Adam Bede](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede/imagination-is-a-licensed

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> How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? Or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections?

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> People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.

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