"Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores."

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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe