“ When the person’s good, your making things easy is all to the credit of virtue. ”
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881). copy citation
Author | Henry James |
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Source | The Portrait of a Lady |
Topic | virtue good |
Date | 1881 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2833/2833-h/2833-h.htm |
Context
““I don’t think I enter into your spirit. It seems to me immoral.”
“Immoral, dear daddy?”
“Well, I don’t know that it’s right to make everything so easy for a person.”
“It surely depends upon the person. When the person’s good, your making things easy is all to the credit of virtue. To facilitate the execution of good impulses, what can be a nobler act?”
This was a little difficult to follow, and Mr. Touchett considered it for a while. At last he said: “Isabel’s a sweet young thing;”
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