Yes, but at what cost...

Why do you ask me why I put my best foot forward?
Do I have to find reason for that?

Education isn't just books,
why can't you see what I am doing is bringing me more than the encyclopedia Brittanica has ever taught me?

You once saw me prancing among the bookshelves, pouring over books in the library, and you said I had an insatiable hunger for knowledge...
You were so happy then, and the joy I saw in you thrilled me to no end.
Don't you recognise it is this same hunger that drives me now?

Hunger for knowledge, hunger to do you proud.
Why do I put my best foot forward?

Non sibi
Not for oneself.