Quote#Wisdom
He had had a warning, a practical moral lesson which had merely…
Quote byThomas Anstey Guthrie · 1856–1934
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885), Chapter 3, “The Third Cheque”.
English (original)
He had had a warning, a practical moral lesson which had merely arrived, as such things often do, rather after date.
— Thomas Anstey Guthrie
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