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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: been a theft.' There are many (not Catholics merely) who
require their heroes and saints to be infallible; to these
the story will be painful; not to the true lovers, patrons,
and servants of mankind.
And I take it, this is a type of our division; that you are
one of those who have an eye for faults and failures; that
you take a pleasure to find and publish them; and that,
having found them, you make haste to forget the overvailing
virtues and the real success which had alone introduced them
to your knowledge. It is a dangerous frame of mind. That
you may understand how dangerous, and into what a situation
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