grievous quotes

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

-Trollope, Anthony
  OfTrevelyan's paranoia about his wife's fidelity. HeKnew He Was Right, ch.38.

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