"Voting isn’t marriage - it’s public transport. You are not waiting for “the one” who is absolutely perfect."
With this metric, is even marriage like marriage? Do people believe there is exactly one person out of seven billion that is your soulmate and you have to find them?
Dr. Johnson also had some wisdom on the idea of "The One":
Boswell: "Pray, Sir, do you not suppose that there are fifty women in the world, with any one of whom a man may be as happy, as with any one woman in particular?" Johnson: "Ay, Sir, fifty thousand."
@clackeThe Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered the greatest of English biographies -- it really is very good, giving you an idea not just what he did, but what it would have been like to know him. And he was a very interesting fellow, with failings, quirks, and much wisdom, literary and otherwise.
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