end-of-the-nineteenth-century

Updated: May 26, 2025

Studying them, I came to the conclusion that the ways and manners of love are very same-like throughout the world, as though the foolish boy, unheedful of human advance, kept but one school for minor poet and East End shop-boy, for Girton girl and little milliner; taught but the one lesson to the end-of-the-nineteenth-century Johnny that he taught to bearded Pict and Hun four thousand years ago.

Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome - Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green