Feb. 7th, 2011
It is true that the English people love a lord, but it is not true that they fear him; rather, if anything, they pity him; there creeps into their love something of the feeling they have towards a baby or a black man. In their hearts they think it admirable that Sir Leicester Dedlock should be able to speak at all.
Chesterton, 'Charles Dickens', Ch. VIII
Chesterton, 'Charles Dickens', Ch. VIII