This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,— often the surfeit of our own behaviour,— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by' heavenly compulsion... The Beautiful in Nature, Art, and Life - Page 218by Andrew James Symington - 1857Full view - About this book
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