“There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost”
Graham Greene book Monsignor Quixote
Monsignor Quixote (1982)
“Let them recognize virtue and rot for having lost it.”
— Persius
Satire III, line 38.
Alternate translation (by William Gifford):—
"In all her charms, set Virtue in their eye,
And let them see their loss, despair, and—die!"
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