Samuel Butler: Taking numbers into account, I should think more mental suffering had been undergone in the streets leading from St Geor

Taking numbers into account, I should think more mental suffering had been under — Samuel Butler

Taking numbers into account, I should think more mental suffering had been undergone in the streets leading from St George's, Hanover Square, than in the condemned cells of Newgate.

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