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-- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (from memory -- I may have the exact phrasing wrong).
You can replace "goodness" in this sentence with almost anything that tends to get flippantly rejected without thought.
The bit about "trained to act as if" is very astute. The same training can be applied to overvaluing things with little or no apparent value.