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“...for he had come to think that so long as a man wants to do right he may go where he can: when he can go no further, then it is not the way. 'Only,' said his father, in assenting to the theory, 'he must really want to do right, and not merely fancy he does. He must want it with his heart and will, and not with his rag of a tongue.” — George MacDonald

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...for he had come to think that so long as a man wants to do right he may go where he can: when he can go no further, then it is not the way. 'Only,' said his father, in assenting to the theory, 'he must really want to do right, and not merely fancy he does. He must want it with his heart and will, and not with his rag of a tongue.
— George MacDonald