People in high life have all the luxuries to themselves—among others, the luxury of indulging their feelings.
 Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868). copy citation

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Author Wilkie Collins
Source The Moonstone
Topic luxury feelings
Date 1868
Language English
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“The poor dead girl must have been at the bottom of it, I think, with my daughter and with me. The Sergeant went to the window, and stood there looking out. I thought it right to thank him for considering us both in this way—and I did. People in high life have all the luxuries to themselves—among others, the luxury of indulging their feelings. People in low life have no such privilege. Necessity, which spares our betters, has no pity on us. We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be.” source