Yet another pointed comment directed at the selfish, the foolish, and the wicked. That is, the mob occupying D.C. at the moment.<\/p>\n
The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise; and to set up the selfish, the foolish, or the wicked. O be humble, my brother, in your properity! Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a change, whose rank may be an ancestor’s accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.<\/em><\/p>\n The mockingly gentle mockery is by William Makepeace Thackeray<\/a>. I landed upon it somewhere near the end of his great, great Vanity Fair.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yet another pointed comment directed at the selfish, the foolish, and the wicked. That is, the mob occupying D.C. at the moment. The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast … Continue reading