Aristocratic Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

“There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.”

Elizabeth Bowen

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