Quotation for a Friday night

I'm studying theory tonight (I know, it's Party Central up in here--Friday night, baby!) and I came across this excellent quotation by 19th century British poet and all-around know-it-all Matthew Arnold:

Let us think of quietly enlarging our stock of true and fresh ideas, and not, as soon as we get an idea or half an idea, be running out with it into the street, and trying to make it rule there. - from "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1864)

What really makes me laugh is that this idea is totally antithetical to blogging, which is ALL about taking halves (and even smaller fractions) of ideas and running out with them into the street. Arnold could have never forseen the Internet...

Also, no one feel bad about the fact that I'm studying on a Friday night because (stage whisper!) I'm doing it with a Jack and tea by my side. Makes theory so much more palatable.

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