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A Tramp's Notebook

By Morley Roberts

2019-11-23 19:01:21

Excerpt...... How much bitter experience a man keeps to himself, let the experienced say, for they only know. For my own part I am conscious that it rarely occurs to me to mention some things which happened either in England or out of it, and that if ... Read more
Excerpt...... How much bitter experience a man keeps to himself, let the experienced say, for they only know. For my own part I am conscious that it rarely occurs to me to mention some things which happened either in England or out of it, and that if I do, it is only to pass them over casually as mere facts that had no profound effect upon me. But the importance of any hardship cannot be estimated at once; it has either psychological or physiological sequelæ or both. The attack of malaria passes, but in long years after it returns anew and devouring the red blood, it breaks down a man's cheerfulness; a night in a miasmic forest may make him forever a slave in a dismal swamp of pessimism. It is so with starvation, and all things physical. It is so with things mental, with degradations, with desolation; the scars and more than scars remain: there is outward healing, it may be, but we often flinch at mere remembrance. Less

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File size170.462 KB
Print pages170
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1533387509
Morley Roberts (29 December 1857 – 8 June 1942) was an English novelist and short-story writer, best known for The Private Life of Henry Maitland. Roberts was born in London, the son of a superinten...

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