For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round... No Hero: An Autobiography : [a Novel] - Sida 322efter Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1863 - 355 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
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