Attend to your Configuration. Author: Edwin A. Abbott Copy Quote More from Edwin A. Abbott “...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and…” “Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pent…” “My Lord, you own wisdom has taught me to aspire to One even more great, more be…” “Few are the hearts whose happy lot it is at once to recognize in each other's v…”