"I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives."

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Source : Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (1958). “Wieland, Or, The Transformation”, p.75, Hackett Publishing

Charles Brockden Brown

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