“I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.”
Quote by Frances Trollope
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Frances Trollope
Frances Trollope, born on March 10, 1779, and died on October 6, 1863, was a renowned British novelist known for her social satirical novels. more