 I love a book that has reason to give me pause, and this book was exactly that. Some quotables: 0. There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction...it is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in the world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. 0. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it. 0. Every portrait that is painte I love a book that has reason to give me pause, and this book was exactly that. Some quotables: 0. There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction...it is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in the world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. 0. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it. 0. Every portrait that is painte