Quote#Truth
Having no knowledge of these great men, nor of the matter how far it…
Quote byRichard Doddridge Blackmore · 1825–1900
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lorna Doone (1869), Ch. 24.
English (original)
Having no knowledge of these great men, nor of the matter how far it was true, I had not very much to say about either of them or it; but this silence was not shared (although the ignorance may have been) by the hundreds of people around me.
— Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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