Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated

‘what a troublesome world this is, when one has the most right to expect it to be as agreeable as possible!’

Physical diseases, engendered in the vices and neglects of men, will seize on victims of all degrees; and the frightful moral disorder, born of unspeakable suffering, intolerable oppression, and heartless indifference, smote equally without distinction.

was, to let everything go on in its own way; of particular public business, Monseigneur had the other truly noble idea that it must all go his way—tend to his own power and pocket.