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I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for…
Quote byMary Augusta Ward · 1851–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Writer's Recollections (1918), Ch. XII, p. 230; about Robert Elsmere.
English (original)
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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