And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my d…

Herman Melville
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened. ✨ Herman Melville (1857). The Confidence-man: His Masquerade, p.24
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened. ✨ Herman Melville (1857). The Confidence-man: His Masquerade, p.24

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