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Do you ever notice, asked Luisa, how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic . . . while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Source: The Evening of the Holiday, ch. 13, 1965.
-- Shirley Hazzard, (Jan 30 1931-2016), Australian novelist; She is best known for The Transit of Venus, 1980 and The Evening of the Holiday, 1965.

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