I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why...
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.