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Quotation by Samuel Butler
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When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), British author. Notebooks, ch. 2 (1912).
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