"Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds."
"I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue."
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Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase. Book by Louisa May Alcott, 1995.
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