“Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.”
Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist
Variant: Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
“Power shows the man.”
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 77.
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