Richard Whately Quote

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.


Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately (ed. 1856)


The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.