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Quotation from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Ye took the better part and pardoned; I took the worse, and there lies the clay of mine enemy.”

Robert Louis Stevenson (spoken by Ellis Duckworth)

The Black Arrow, Book V, Chapter VII (Project Gutenberg #848)

Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson

Having shot Sir Daniel from the thicket after Dick spared him, the outlaw asks Dick to pray for him.

Citation: "Ye took the better part and pardoned; I took the worse, and there lies the clay of mine enemy." — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow, Book V, Chapter VII (Project Gutenberg #848). (id the-black-arrow-q8)

Virtues: Charity, Magnanimity

Portrait: Blackarrowcover, Cassel 1888., Public domain.

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