Two thoughts from E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View …
… one a profound comment by the narrrator:
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
… and one, spoken by Lucy, a little disturbing:
He seems to see the good in everyone. No one would take him for a clergyman.
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