Self Contented Quotes by Edwin A. Abbott

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• Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and…
• I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers,…
• Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.
• Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
• If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our…
• Upward, not Northward
• ...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be…
• I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage…

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