"Is it that a long commerce with the world does indeed corrupt the heart; and extinguish by degrees those sparks of light, those inclinations to good, which were implanted in our minds?"
Letter (November 10, 1750)
Hester Mulso Chapone, <u>The Works of Mrs. Chapone: Now First Collected</u>, Vol. iv, Life and Correspondence (London: John Murray, 1807). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=WeU0AAAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;
