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.
ATTRIBUTION:
J.M. (John Millington) Synge (1871–1909), Irish poet, dramatist. The Vagrants of Wicklow (written 1901-1902), first published in The Shanachie (Dublin, autumn 1906).
