Phyllis Bottome - Jane had that happy disposition which would like

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

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Bottome, Phyllis. Private Worlds. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934.

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