It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.


Dracula (ed. Hayes Barton Press, 1904) - ISBN: 9781593774677

Bram Stoker Quotes

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which...

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which...

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which...

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which...