"Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay."

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Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton