[VOA]

Great series of quotes.
The only displeasure I get from them is that I was forced to waste time in high school
with pedestrian classes like "Survey of The American Short Story" when I could
have been studying something substantive like Smith's philosophy.

[PsyOp]

I was forced to waste time in high school.

Weren't we all. But it was a High School English Teacher by the name of Mr. O'Brien (a great Irishman felled by a brain tumor) who launched me on the collection of quotations- the best thing I ever got out the High School experience. Or as Winston would have said:

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930.