Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, book The Razor's Edge
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
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