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Quotation from North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
“I would rather be a man toiling, suffering—nay, failing and successless—here, than lead a dull prosperous life in the old worn grooves of what you call more aristocratic society down in the South, with their slow days of careless ease.”
North and South, Chapter X: Wrought Iron and Gold
Thornton defends Milton against Margaret's preference for the South.
Citation: "I would rather be a man toiling, suffering—nay, failing and successless—here, than lead a dull prosperous life in the old worn grooves of what you call more aristocratic society down in the South, with their slow days of careless ease." — Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, Chapter X: Wrought Iron and Gold. (id north-and-south-q1)
Portrait: Elizabeth Gaskell, George Richmond, Public domain.
