Edwin A. Abbott Quotes

To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.

Edwin A. Abbott

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Edwin A. Abbott

Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884).

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Edwin A. Abbott

I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.

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Edwin A. Abbott

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

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To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.

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Edwin A. Abbott

Attend to your Configuration.

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