“If everyone were a driven leader, there would be no one left to be led. If everyone were an enthusiastic entertainer, there would be no one to amuse. And if everyone were a detail-oriented perfectionist, there wouldn’t be anything to keep in order.” Surrounded by Idiots
In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; “I am rising to a man’s work.” Meditations
Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. The Common Reader
“At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.” Stranger
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