Arminius Vambery - His Life and Adventures #230630

I had then been attending school for about three years; and as my teachers were lavish in their praises of my extraordinary memory, enabling me to learn by heart, with great ease, almost anything, even passages in Latin which I did not understand at all, I thought of going on with the pursuit Of my studies, in order to become a physician or lawyer, — the two professions which, at that time, were considered in the rural parts of Hungary as the goal of the most exalted ambition of an educated man.