Quote#Wisdom
These statements were, as he felt even in making them, not only…
Quote byThomas Anstey Guthrie · 1856–1934
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 8, “Bachelor’s Quarters”.
English (original)
These statements were, as he felt even in making them, not only gratuitous, but utterly unconvincing, but he had arrived at that condition in which a man discovers with terror the unsuspected amount of mendacity latent in his system.
— Thomas Anstey Guthrie
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