"Even then, our childhood companions have a power over our souls that a later friend can hardly achieve. They know our childhood nature well, which may have changed later, but never completely disappeared, and they are the ones who can judge our actions, inferring with more or less certainty the honesty of our motives.
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Author
Mary ShelleyAll Translations
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Even then, our childhood companions have a power over our souls that a later friend can hardly achieve. They know our childhood nature well, which may have changed later, but never completely disappeared, and they are the ones who can judge our actions, inferring with more or less certainty the honesty of our motives.
""Gyermekkori társainknak akkor is olyan hatalmuk van lelkünk fölött, amire későbbi barát nemigen tehet szert. Ők jól ismerik gyermekkori természetünket, ami talán utóbb megváltozott, de teljesen sose tűnt el, és ők azok, akik meg tudják ítélni tetteinket, több-kevesebb biztonsággal következtetvén indítékaink becsületességére."