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But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a342/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/16/342.v8.jpg" alt="D. H. Lawrence"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">D. H. 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