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Ideas are like children—your own are very wonderful.

[There are some people who are not only indifferent to whether they’re irritating others, but who go out of their way to irritate. Perhaps this tendency is strongest in young men who are physically unprepossessing but who are clever and articulate. The mountaineer and gifted controversialist Arnold Lunn might serve as an example. In the passage below he provides evidence for this supposition.]

It was at Hexham that I first met the lady who is now my wife. Mabel Northcote had never met anybody in the least like me, and she explained to her aunt that she hoped the experience would remain unique. In those days I had not begun to mellow, and whereas I have now succeeded in concealing, then I was anxious to emphasize my unpleasant eccentricities. I owe my marriage, as I owe almost everything good in my life, to the mountains, for I was asked to lecture on mountains, and in the course of the lecture I displayed my less repulsive characteristics, and I noticed to my surprise that the most interested member of the audience was a girl whose disapproval I had amused myself by provoking.

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