On his schooldays: “The class was henceforth divided into distinct groups: the talebearers and the envious on one side, the frank and courageous boys on the other, and the neutral and vacillating mass in the middle. These three groups never quite disappeared even in later years. I was to meet them again and again in my life.” —Leon Trotsky, My Life, cited in Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed (h/t Connor Kilpatrick)