“[W]alking sometimes in a perfectly desolate plain where there have been no houses nor trees to guide me, I have been occasionally compelled to… — Edwin Abbott Abbott Copy Share Image
“Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire… — Edwin Abbott Abbott Copy Share Image
“To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.” — Edwin Abbott Abbott Copy Share Image
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