“There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?”

—  Paul Bourget

Source: Cosmopolis (1892), Ch. 1 "A Dilettante and a Believer"

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French writer 1852–1935

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