| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38979 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. The Confidence-Man (1857), ch. 6, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 10, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1984).
Spoken by the wooden-legged man. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Melville Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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