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I must resist the impulse, but I cannot stop without saying a word on the quality which I regard as beyond all others his own, I mean the absence from his nature of all tendency to suspicion.
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John Morley
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Morley reflects on the admirable quality of a person's character, emphasizing their lack of suspicion.
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