He remembered his wife's even goodness during thirty years. Not anything in detail - not courtship or early raptures -but just the unvarying virtue, that seemed to him a woman's noblest quality. (E. M. Forster)

He remembered his wife's even goodness during thirty years. Not anything in detail - not courtship or early raptures -but just the unvarying virtue, that seemed to him a woman's noblest quality.

E. M. Forster

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