“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”
― Frankenstein
Learn from me | QOTD
Memoir of a Writer 
Unfortunately, it is all about fearing the unknown, strangers and people with ideas we don’t understand.
Warmest regards, Ed
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I did not know there was an 1818 Text. Thank you for sharing.
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The Last Man – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. A treatise on how mankind ends.
Bliss. I would trade my heightened intellect for stupid bliss — any day.
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I’ve heard the more intelligent someone is the more they are to melancholic tendencies. I tend to agree, yet I don’t think I’d trade intellect for blissful ignorance.
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Happy and stupid vs morose and intellectual? I don’t know? Eternity awaits; I think I’d rather be happy during this blink that is our lives than the alternative, which is life as it is, a constant disappointment.
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That’s so sad. It doesn’t have to be either or. I think in general it’s true, but stupid people aren’t always happy and smart people aren’t always morose.
It’s about accepting the world and being able to live happily despite it.
Without intelligence you’re more likely a sheep to the whims of others, meaning you’re more bound by someone else’s ideas and beliefs.
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A benevolent king is the best government. A malevolent tyranny, the worst. Both have ruled the witless and the wise. It may matter not one’s cognizance, and more so, the world into which one is thrust.
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