If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.


Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country (ed. 1863)

Alexander Smith Quotes

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is...

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is...

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is...

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is...