When I was as old as you, I was a feeling fellow enough, partial to the unfledged, unfostered, and unlucky; but Fortune has knocked me about since: she has even kneaded me with her knuckles, and now I flatter myself I am hard and tough as an India-rubber ball; pervious, though, through a chink or two still, and with one sentient point in the middle of the lump.
Mindenki, aki szegény volt, elhagyatott, boldogtalan, számíthatott rám. Hanem aztán a sors kegyetlenül elbánt velem, alaposan megdögönyözött, és most hízelgek magamnak azzal, hogy kemény vagyok, hajlíthatatlan, szívós, mint egy tömör gumilabda.