How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

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W. H. Auden: "How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe."

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About	Bathtubs	Cashier	Closing
Colleague	Comparing	Complaining	Content
Days	Deserve	Fill	Good
Happy	High	Incomprehensibility	Irregularly
Judged	Letter	Mathematician	Mathematicians
Mathematics	Modern	Paper	Peers
Pipe	Press	Reputation	Rival
Rooms	Shaped	Solely	Standard
Unfavorably	Waste	Without	Writes

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How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe. - W. H. Auden