One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Jânio da Silva Quadros was a Brazilian politician who served as President of Brazil from 31 January to 25 August 1961, when he resigned from office.
