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: Robert Recorde was a Welsh physician and mathematician. He invented the "equals" sign and also introduced the pre-existing "plus" sign to English speakers in 1557.
