quote of the day

"Went down into a modest life of usefulness and happiness. Went
down to give a mother's care, in the fulness of time, to Fanny's
neglected children no less than to their own, and to leave that
lady going into Society for ever and a day. Went down to give a
tender nurse and friend to Tip for some few years, who was never
vexed by the great exactions he made of her in return for the
riches he might have given her if he had ever had them, and who
lovingly closed his eyes upon the Marshalsea and all its blighted
fruits. They went quietly down into the roaring streets,
inseparable and blessed; and as they passed along in sunshine and
shade, the noisy and the eager, and the arrogant and the froward
and the vain, fretted and chafed, and made their usual uproar."

-- Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit