Character
Strafford's biographer describes him as shy,self-effacing, tolerant and charitable, a profound thinker, a fine lawyer and deeply concerned for social justice. Even though public opinion in Ireland had turned against Strafford in his final months, Wandesford's death was genuinely mourned.
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“Even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbour’s household, and, underneath, another—secret and passionate and intense—which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him.”
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“The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.”
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