'...even a virtue can be carried too far. Drake, for instance, carried patriotism as far as to be indistinguishable from piracy. Venetia carried resignation, which is conscious of grave faults in mankind, so far as to be indistinguishable from absent-mindedness, which is conscious of nothing...'
from Young Men in Love by Michael Arlen (Book One)
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