The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. (Richard Whately)

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Richard Whately

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