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The Confidence-Man Quotes

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

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Herman Melville - Book Quotes
  • Book: The Confidence-Man
  • Writer: Herman Melville
  • Genre: Satire, Classics, Fiction
  • Published: 1857
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