“The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge.”

—  J. Sheridan Le Fanu, book Uncle Silas

Source: Uncle Silas (1864), Ch. 47

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