1950, beginning with the OM and ending with the Nobel Prize, seems to have marked the apogee of my respectability. It is true that I began to feel slightly uneasy, fearing that this might mean the onset of blind orthodoxy. I have always held that no one can be respectable without being wicked, but ... .
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.3 chap. 1: Return to England, 1969
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