"Who was it who said that every virtue……" — Kevin Brockmeier
"Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn."
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