“It is only a certain type of mind that scorns what is known by all and reads secrets as jewels.”
Neal Stephenson book Seveneves
“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 749)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three
“A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.”
Certaine gayeté d'esprit conficte en mespris des choses fortuites.
Prologue de l'autheur.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552)
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