"Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities."

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We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

— Albert Schweitzer