No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.


Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855) - Sir Walter Scott (1838)


No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.