Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 596.
“I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”
Variant: You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02
On his father and a fight they had when Childish was 20 years old.
“He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him.”
On the character Chueh-hsin (Juexin), in Family (1931)
Context: He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him. He preferred to swallow his tears, suppress his anger and bitterness; he would bear anything rather than oppose a person directly. Nor did it ever occur to him to wonder whether this forbearance might not be harmful to others.
Letter to Charles Kingsley (6 May 1863)
1860s
sic
Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers, p. 169, (1997), Brian King, ed. ISBN 096503240X
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 441
