Word: blemishes
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...from all impure contact, - in the absence of this jealous and anxious solicitude of a mother for what she holds dearest upon earth, evil thoughts come to light, and soon get the upper hand. Upon these tender natures the slightest pernicious influence makes itself profoundly felt. A very small blemish is enough to spoil the best fruits, and it is the most delicate that are most accessible to nourishment...
...those persons who are always misjudged, and judged only by the poorer side of their characters. Should we meet him tomorrow, we should set him down as a prig, and perhaps be right in doing so. But if he is a prig at all, his priggishness is only a blemish, and not the mainspring of his character...