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Only honest people and crooks can find a way out of any situation

December 31, 2017 ~ Walter Shandy ~ Leave a comment

A hint of Rochefoucauld in Anton Chekhov’s The Duel (pg. 212 of the Everyman Complete Short Novels, Pevear and Volokhonsky translation):

Only honest people and crooks can find a way out of any situation, but somebody who wants to be an honest man and a crook at the same time has no way out.

“It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random curiosities he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane” – prologue to Moby Dick

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