• We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

    Charles Lamb: We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
    Charles Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Mary Lamb (1971). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1820”