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but I warn you that the house of righteousness is but a wayside inn upon the road to being a representative citizen . '' `` You are talking nonsense , '' I rapped out -- `` and immoral nonsense . '' `` It is very strange , '' John Charteris complained , `` how so many of us manage to reduce everything to a question of morality , -- that is , to the alternative of being right or wrong . Now a man 's personality , as somebody or other very properly observes , has many parts besides the moral area ; and the intelligent , the artistic , even the religious part , need not necessarily have anything to do with ethics -- '' `` Ah , yes , '' said I , `` so there is a train at noon -- '' `` And a virtuous man , '' continued Charteris , amicably , `` is no more the perfect type of humanity than an intellectual man . In fact , the lowest and certainly the most disagreeable type of all troublesome people is that which combines an immaculate past with a limited understanding . The religious tenets of this class consist of an unshakable belief that the Bible was originally written in English , and contains nothing applicable to any of the week-days . And in consequence -- '' I left him mid-course in speech .