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

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Author Henry James
Source The Portrait of a Lady
Topic virtue good
Date 1881
Language English
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““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;” source