"We are selectively decent, if we are decent at all. We each have one or two virtues
which we cultivate, not much really. Or we pick a virtue which always seems to help, to
mediate goodness somehow, as it might be resolution, or benevolence, or innocence, or
temperance, or honor. Something not too large, not too impossibly hard that seems to suit
us somehow…"
--Nuns and Soldiers.
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