Highlights first synced by [[readwise]] [[September 2nd, 2020]]

• As might be expected, he was given to bouts of very purposeful ignorance, and tended to pass over the harsher truths of human nature in favor of those that could be romanticized by whimsy and imagination. With respect to these latter articles, Devlin was an adept. He was an excellent storyteller, and therefore, an effective clergyman. (Location 1289)
• He had always been irreproachable in his conduct, and as a consequence, his capacity for empathy was small. (Location 1990)
• forgiveness is a thing that one must first be obliged to ask for in order to know how to give, (Location 1997)