Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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