If A Man Insisted Always On Being Serious, And Never Allowed Himself A Bit Of
Fun And Relaxation, He Would Go Mad Or Become Unstable Without Knowing It.
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of
fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
-- Herodotus
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life uch are the clouds
and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,
that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and
not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great
calculator indeed who succeeds....