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John Morley: “A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those…”

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A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
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John Morley

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This statement posits that true virtue is irretrievable once lost, a notion that resonates in moral philosophy.

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