• Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

    Walter Lippmann: Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
    Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.137, University of Wisconsin Pres