He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger and reaction

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it.Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a ‘miracle.

velleity, which describes a mild desire, a wish or urge too slight to lead to action.

Written By Bill Bryson

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