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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due she reminds us too much of a prima donna. Edward Morgan 'E. M.' Forster		Monday Jul 27, 2026
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	L.J. Mordell
	In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1977.

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Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does.

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