'People connected with literature and philosophy are busy all their days in getting rid of second-hand notions and false standards. It is their profession, in the sweat of their old fresh view of life, and distinguish what they really and originally like, from what they have only learned to tolerate perforce'.

Robert Louis STEVENSON [1913] An Inland Voyage, London: Chatto&Windus, p.19 [a primeira edição é de 1878]