Quote#World
Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men…
Quote byEdward Bellamy · 1850–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (1880), Ch. 11..
English (original)
Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.
— Edward Bellamy
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