“ We are all of us more or less unwilling to be brought into the world. ”
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868). copy citation
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
|---|---|
| Source | The Moonstone |
| Topic | world |
| Date | 1868 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/155/155-h/155-h.htm |
Context
“it keeps me from getting sour with thinking of the past.” He put on his spectacles, and wagged his head gloomily. “There’s a bottom of good sense, Mr. Franklin, in our conduct to our mothers, when they first start us on the journey of life. We are all of us more or less unwilling to be brought into the world. And we are all of us right.”
Mr. Candy’s assistant had produced too strong an impression on me to be immediately dismissed from my thoughts. I passed over the last unanswerable utterance of the Betteredge philosophy;”
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