I shan't forget you, Jude,' he said, smiling, as the cart moved off. 'Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can. - Thomas Hardy

Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.

be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

I wish I had never been born — there or anywhere else.

whether to follow uncritically the track he finds himself in, without considering his aptness for it, or to consider what his aptness or bent may be, and reshape his course accordingly. I tried to do the latter, and I failed. But I don't admit that my failure proved my view to be a wrong one, or that my success would have made it a right one; though that's how we appraise such attempts nowadays.