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A Modern Instance A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells
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“Character is a superstition, a wretched fetish. Once a year wouldn't be too often to seize upon sinners whose blameless life has placed them above suspicion, and turn them inside out before the community, so as to show people how the smoke of the Pit had been quietly blackening their interior.”
William Dean Howells, A Modern Instance