“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
“I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.
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