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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
Explore more quotes by Lionel Trilling
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."
"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
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