A journalist can’t hope to do much good unless he gets a good deal hated
 Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881). copy citation

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Author Henry James
Source The Portrait of a Lady
Topic hate hope
Date 1881
Language English
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“Why doesn’t my brother like you?” the Countess ingenuously added. “I don’t know and I don’t care. He’s perfectly welcome not to like me; I don’t want every one to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. A journalist can’t hope to do much good unless he gets a good deal hated; that’s the way he knows how his work goes on. And it’s just the same for a lady. But I didn’t expect it of Isabel.” “Do you mean that she hates you?” the Countess enquired. “I don’t know; I want to see.” source