Foolish people—when I say ‘foolish people’ in this contemptuous way I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do—foolish people, I say, then, who have never experienced much of either, will tell you that mental distress is far more agonizing than bodily.
—Jerome K. Jerome | Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow | “On Eating and Drinking.” | p. 67