You will find some portions of a community diligently studying the sciences of the day, others cultivating the arts, &c., each according to their tastes, means, or circumstances, while others seem to be under no cultivation of the mind: yet in all the various classes each wants his neighbor to be precisely like himself.
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.