“ A generous nature is not prone to strong aversions, and is slow to admit them even dispassionately ”
Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit (1857). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Source | Little Dorrit |
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| Date | 1857 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/963/963-h/963-h.htm |
Context
“Not the least of these would have been a contention, always waging within it, between a tendency to dislike Mr Henry Gowan, if not to regard him with positive repugnance, and a whisper that the inclination was unworthy. A generous nature is not prone to strong aversions, and is slow to admit them even dispassionately; but when it finds ill-will gaining upon it, and can discern between-whiles that its origin is not dispassionate, such a nature becomes distressed.
Therefore Mr Henry Gowan would have clouded Clennam’s mind, and would have been far oftener present to it than more agreeable persons and subjects but for the great prudence of his decision aforesaid.”
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