In the lowest stratum of social thraldom, nowhere was the noble soul doomed quite to choke, and die ignobly. (Thomas Carlyle)

In the lowest stratum of social thraldom, nowhere was the noble soul doomed quite to choke, and die ignobly.

Thomas Carlyle

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