Ann Radcliffe - The Italian (1797)

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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

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Calling sternness justice, he extolled that for strength of mind which was only callous insensibility.

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There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

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But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,— O! its quite beyond what you can understand.

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And only if I have cause of complaint, holy father? Are strong truths to be told only when there is direct cause of complaint? Is it only when we are injured that we are to be sincere?

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I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!

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