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The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

George Eliot
Firsts, Goodness, Reverence
Scenes of Clerical Life "Jane's Repentance" ch. 10 (1858)
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.