Quote#World
It was because you were out of sorts with the world, smarting with…
Quote byThomas Hughes · 1822–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Tom Brown at Oxford (1861), Ch. 50.
English (original)
It was because you were out of sorts with the world, smarting with the wrongs you saw on every side, struggling after something better and higher and sympathizing with the poor and weak, that I loved you. We should never have been here, dear, if you had been a young gentleman satisfied with himself and the world, and likely to get on well in society.
— Thomas Hughes
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