A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence from which it might not be hidden?


The Piazza Tales (1856). Benito Cereno

Herman Melville Quotes

A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence...

A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence...

A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence...

A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence...