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The Disowned — Volume 05 By Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The Disowned — Volume 05

By Edward Bulwer-Lytton

  • Release Date: 1873-01-01
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
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Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. It is somewhat remarkable that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable of legacies, the doctrines of a philosophy he had acquired, perhaps too late to practise, Glendower was carrying those very doctrines, so far as his limited sphere would allow, into the rule and exercise of his life.