Jane Porter - People do not always understand ...

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

Jane Porter

Irish Novelist

Born: 1776

Died: 1850

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