Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use …

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Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (2016). A Good Man is Hard to Find, p.116, Faber & Faber
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