Quote#Wisdom
We all want notoriety; our desires on this point, as upon others, are…
Quote byGeorge Moore · 1852–1933
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Confessions of a Young Man (1886), Ch. 16..
English (original)
We all want notoriety; our desires on this point, as upon others, are not noble, but the human is very despicable vermin and only tolerable when it tends to the brute, and away from the evangelical.
— George Moore
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