Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
“I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.”
“I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.”