He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Leo Tolstoy
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his...
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul. He valued that love too highly to take any unfair advantage of it. If he did not respect the principles he had laid down, he would have been more candid in his advice, and there would have been no deed of treachery. If he had not been afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul, he would have spoken out more confidently to Charles Stuart.

Source: Anna Karenina

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