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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing

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"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"

- Herman Melville

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This quote is written / told by Herman Melville between August 1, 1819 and September 28, 1891. He/she was a famous Novelist from USA. The author also have 44 other quotes.

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