Herman Melville Quote

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.


The Confidence-man: His Masquerade (ed. 1857)


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...

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...

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...

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...