The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Of such people there are countless numbers in this world—far more even than appear. They can be divided into two classes as all men can—that is, those of limited intellect, and those who are much cleverer. The former of these classes is the happier.

She had been a beauty in her day and still loved, as many ladies of forty-five do love, to dress a little too smartly.