"To be earnest morally is to recognize that human existence is not a short interval between birth and death in which one fingers as many guineas as possible and eats all the good dinners he can, but a spiritual pilgrimage from here to eternity in which he is called upon to struggle with all his power against the forces of evil, in his own soul and in society."
-- The Victorian Frame of Mind, Walter E. Houghton, 1957, p. 221.
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