It is probably more instructive to entertain a sneaking kindness for any unpopular person, and, among the rest, for Lord Braxfield, than to give way to perfect raptures of moral indignation against his abstract vices.
对一个不受欢迎的人——包括布拉克斯菲尔德勋爵——暗怀几分善意,或许比仅针对他那些抽象的恶行而尽情义愤,更能给人启发。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Some Portraits by Raeburn —