Quotidian Quotation: arrogance

[handworn]

"The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Comments

[sturgeonslawyer]

Emerson was, of course, referring to the leisure class.

[handworn]

Where do you get that?