we have not taken a man of virtue for our hero, after all. And one may even explain why he hasn’t been taken. Because it’s high time to give a rest to the poor man of virtue; because the phrase “man of virtue” is formed all too glibly and idly by all lips; because the man of virtue has been turned into a hack and there isn’t a writer who doesn’t ride him hard, urging him on with a whip or whatever else comes to his hand; because they have overworked the man of virtue to such an extent that now there isn’t even a shadow of virtue about him, and there is nothing but skin and bones left of him
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