Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 211.
“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”
— Gillian Flynn, book Gone Girl
Source: Gone Girl
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