Smartness is good, but oversmartness irritates others-----
"The modern-minded man, although he believes profoundly in the wisdom of his period, must be presumed to be very modest about his personal powers.
"His highest hope is to think first what is about to be thought, to say what is about to be said, and to feel what is about to be felt; he has no wish to think better thoughts than his neighbours, to say things showing more insight, or to have emotions which are not those of some fashionable group, but only to be slightly ahead of others in point of time.
"Quite deliberately he suppresses what is individual in himself for the sake of the admiration of the herd.....what is the use of an eccentric opinion."
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