“The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
“There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
