Then he would be penniless, with the world before him as a closed oyster to be again opened, and he knew, — no one better, — that this oyster becomes harder and harder in the opening as the man who has to open it becomes older.


Ch. 1 - Phineas Redux (1874)

Anthony Trollope Quotes

Then he would be penniless, with the world before him as a closed oyster to be again opened, and he knew, — no one better, — that this oyster...

Then he would be penniless, with the world before him as a closed oyster to be again opened, and he knew, — no one better, — that this oyster...

Then he would be penniless, with the world before him as a closed oyster to be again opened, and he knew, — no one better, — that this oyster...

Then he would be penniless, with the world before him as a closed oyster to be again opened, and he knew, — no one better, — that this oyster...