“We mortal millions live alone.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
“Yes: in the sea of life enisl’d,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.”
"To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis" (1852), stanza 1
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