Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men.... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.


Books and Men (1888)


Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men.... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any...

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men.... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any...

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men.... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any...

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men.... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any...