# Which trait condemned in this passage do you also carry? Where does it show up?

_Theme: **shadow** - card 2/4 - 2026-04-29_

> I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse. His goodness must not be a partial and transitory act, but a constant superfluity, which costs him nothing and of which he is unconscious. This is a charity that hides a multitude of sins. The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast-off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy.

-- Henry David Thoreau, _Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience_

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