Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to… — Samuel Butler (novelist)
Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy-very unhappy-it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness.
The Way of All Flesh · 1902
★ 3.5Provenance
Current citation
Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 6.
Original citation
Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 6.