Monday, August 29, 2011

Their own little world


“...let it be remembered that most men live in a world of their own, and that in that limited circle alone are they ambitious for distinction and applause. Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.”


- Charles Dickens, “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"

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