good advice from an unexpected source

[mahawara]

From the foreword to A Brave New WorldChronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean

Comments

[mahawara]

I am re-reading it currently. It actually was never required reading for me, but I read it my first year of college. Terrifically British indeed. One really should say things like "rolling in the muck" far more often.

[floydcollins]

Some of us didn't get to in High School. The end of BNW kind of gets preachy though. Island is much smarter, though less funny.