Quote#Pride
Why do I keep this voluminous journal? I can hardly tell. Partly…
Quote byFrancis Kilvert · 1840–1879
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 4 November 1874.
English (original)
Why do I keep this voluminous journal? I can hardly tell. Partly because life seems to me such a curious and wonderful thing that it seems a pity that even such a humble and uneventful life as mine should pass altogether away without some such record as this, and partly too because I think the record may amuse and interest some who come after me.
— Francis Kilvert
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