I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story. (Thomas Hardy)

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Thomas Hardy

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