In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest—usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation—and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
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The Vagrants of Wicklow, written 1901-1902, first published in The Shanachie (Dublin, autumn 1906).John Millington Synge
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