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: Oliver Sheldon was a director of the Rowntree Company in York, in the UK. He wrote on principles of public and business administration in the 1920s.
