My favorite G. H. Hardy quote: 'It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.'
"I shall assume that I am writing for readers who are full, or have in the past been full, of a proper spirit of ambition. A man's first duty, a young man's at any rate, is to be ambitious." – G. H. Hardy
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Do you mean this one?https://twitter.com/paulg/status/907543028667215872 …
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What are you ambitious for nowadays? It would be interesting to know. You've often referred to yourself as old, but I'd like to believe that no matter how old one gets, one stays ambitious. Is it true?
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“There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.”
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A woman is more than a man.
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I also suspect such phrases, and no doubt Hardy did too. So he would have to have been pretty sure to write that, and the fact that he wrote it makes me pay attention instead of automatically dismissing it.
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I find it impossible not to read these quotes in the light of Hardy's later depression and attempted suicide as the embers dimmed.
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