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\u201cKeep doing good deeds long enough, and you\u2019ll probably turn out a good man. In spite of yourself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Louis Auchincloss<\/strong>, American author & lawyer<\/p>\n

The Rector of Justin <\/em>(1964) New York: Houghton Mifflin, p. 333<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf63270a-34b3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0[Fictional dialogue. \u2018Dr. Prescott\u2019 to narrator, \u2018Brian Aspinwall\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the intrinsic goodness of a good deed must seep into the motive, and some of the bad of a bad deed. Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you\u2019ll probably turn out a good man. In spite of yourself<\/span>.\u201d (p. 333)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ID” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf63270a-34b3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 The Rector of Justin<\/em> (1964) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 279743[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc270a-34b3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cOnly little boys and old men sneer at love.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Louis Auchincloss<\/strong>, American author & lawyer<\/p>\n

The Rector of Justin <\/em>(1964) New York: Houghton Mifflin, p. 105<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e62270a-34b3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Fictional dialogue]:<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, love!\u201d she exclaimed angrily. \u201cDon\u2019t smile at me in that cool, cynical way. If you could see how immature you looked! Only little boys and old men sneer at love<\/span>.<\/span> I happen to love Frank Prescott, and he happens to love me.\u201d (p. 105)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ID” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c270a-34b3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 The Rector of Justin<\/em> (1964) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 279743[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf63270a-34b3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cPerfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Louis Auchincloss<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

\u201cEdith Wharton\u201d (1 January 1961) University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, Issue 12; reprint in Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists<\/em> (1961) Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, third printing, 1966, p. 21<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf63270a-34b3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Non-fiction overview of the work of nine American authors. In this excerpt, Auchincloss is introducing a chapter on the work of novelist Edith Wharton.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a long way from the picture in the minds of some American critics of a precious and snobbish old lady. Yet one can see how both pictures came into being. Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life<\/span>. As some of Mrs. Wharton\u2019s acquaintances complained that her taste in furnishing was too good, her French too precisely idiomatic, so have some of her critics found her heroes and heroines too exquisite, too apt to exclaim in rapt unison over little known beauties in art and literature with which the majority of her readers may not be equally familiar.\u201d (pp. 20-21)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ID” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf63270a-34b3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists<\/em> (1965|1966 U of M edition) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 59004074[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

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