• Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".

    Hope Mirrlees: Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".
    Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.125, F+W Media, Inc.