“The world may be utterly crazy
And life may be labour in vain;
But I'd rather be silly than lazy,
And would not quit life for its pain.”

—  James Clerk Maxwell

Part III Poems, Tune, Il Segreto per esser felice (March 24, 1858)
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882)

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