“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.”

— G. K. Chesterton

As quoted in Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 34

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