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The virtue of any act is never the brilliancy of it, nor the reputation it wins for the doer of the act; but rather the effect on the one who does it, the something that goes out of the act into the character of the man.
Talks to Boys in the Chapel of Groton School; Sherrard Billings, B.D., Senior Master; Houghton Mifflin Co., New York; The Riverside Press, Cambridge; 1928.