"Impracticableness" Quotes from Famous Books
... philanthropist, who had become so deeply sensible of the calamities of thousands and millions of his fellow-creatures, and of the impracticableness of any general measures for their relief, that he had no heart to do what little good lay immediately within his power, but contented himself with being miserable for sympathy. Near him sat a gentleman in a predicament hitherto unprecedented, but of which the present ... — The Christmas Banquet (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne |