# Quote — Frederick Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh

> An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.

- Author: [Frederick Rolfe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederick-rolfe.md)
- Book: [Hadrian the Seventh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederick-rolfe/hadrian-the-seventh.md)
- Page: 296
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Rolfe#Hadrian_the_Seventh_(1904)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederick-rolfe/hadrian-the-seventh/an-appeal-to-a-goodness

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> Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.

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> He took the imperial hand and shook it in the glad-to-see-you-but-keep-off English fashion.

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> Pray for the repose of His soul. He was so tired.

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