you are not a man, but a feminine monstrosity with a bass voice! - Edwin A. Abbott

.. e traine questa lezione: che l'essere soddisfatti di sé significa essere vili e ignoranti, e che è sempre meglio aspirare a qualcosa che essere ciecamente, e impotentemente, felici

Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State.