I seriously wished—selfish as it may appear—that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a date as should have put my intermeddling with it entirely out of the question.


The Blithedale Romance (1852)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

I seriously wished—selfish as it may appear—that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a ...

I seriously wished—selfish as it may appear—that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a ...

I seriously wished—selfish as it may appear—that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a ...

I seriously wished—selfish as it may appear—that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a ...