Quote#Death
I for my part was most thankful that I had not killed. For to have…
Quote byRichard Doddridge Blackmore · 1825–1900
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lorna Doone (1869), Ch. 49.
English (original)
I for my part was most thankful that I had not killed. For to have the life of a fellow-man laid upon one's conscience—deserved he his death, or deserved it not—is to my sense of right and wrong the heaviest of all burdens; and the one that wears most deeply inwards, with the dwelling of the mind on this view and on that of it.
— Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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