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Follow Author. Robert E. Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. Learn more. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him? I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps.

Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged.

It is history that teaches us to hope. The power which the strong have over the weak, the employer over the employed, the educated over the unlettered, the experienced over the confiding, even the clever over the silly--the forbearing or inoffensive use of all this power or authority, or a total abstinence from it when the case admits it, will show the men in a plain light.