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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