"The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being"

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It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

— Charles Caleb Colton