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.

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Original Citation

Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 6.