Julian

“Human kind had failed the Dean. He had meant to love his fellow man, had believed not only that he could, but that it would be easy because he wanted to, but he had found, to his dismay, that most of his fellow men simply were not loveable. Their deviousness he might have forgiven, their unscrupulousness and even cruelty, the world was after all a harsh place and drove a man to very basic behaviour merely to survive, but their oafish vulgarity, their unashamed preference for the crude and the shoddy fell little short of disgusting him.”
― Joanna Trollope, The Choir