"Filthily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Piddingfold, pondering over many things. The reaction of that night had been too severe. His ardour was again almost entirely quenched when he saw the men for whom he had worked, and who professed themselves his supporters, filthily drunk. A noble sentence, however, from the Idler came into his mind—his mother had a copy of the Idler in her bedroom, and read and re-read it, and oftentimes quoted it to her husband and her son—"He that has improved the virtue or advanced the happiness of one fellow-creature ...
— The Revolution in Tanner's Lane • Mark Rutherford |
