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"Learn from me... how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures... then that study is certainly unlawful, not befitting the human mind."

No monster yet, but lots of hubris.