It is by refusing to trust its intuitions that men grow vile; and to the very last that refusal is never absolute, so that no villainy can reckon upon its agents, and its agents cannot always reckon upon themselves.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
But I claim to defend his heart from the charge of villainy, and his intellect from imbecility, for I have often said of him, "Dr. McFarland is the greatest man I ever saw, and he would be the best if he wasn't so bad!"
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
All the anger, the indignation, almost the grief at being robbed, left penniless, had momentarily faded from Gerard's mind before the overwhelming disgust which he felt for the other's villainy.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford