Quote#World
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am…
Quote byFord Madox Ford · 1873–1939
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Good Soldier (1915), Part Four, Ch. VI (p. 253).
English (original)
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and to madness.
— Ford Madox Ford
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