J. R. R. Tolkien on the most improper job for any person

    In a letter J. R. R. Tolkien wrote:

The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. . . . The mediaevals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari (“I do not wish to be made a bishop”) as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or racehorses. . . .
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