Source: This Side of Paradise
“Þæt is nu hraðost to secganne, þæt ic wilnode weorðfullice to libbanne þa hwile þe ic lifede, and æfter minum life þæm monnum to læfanne þe æfter me wæren min gemyndig on godum weorcum.”
I desired to live worthily as long as I lived, and to leave after my life, to the men who should come after me, the memory of me in good works.
In his translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, ch. 17, p. 133.
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