Nationally syndicated column number 219, Rogers Gets Six Shiny Dimes From Oil King (1927). <ref name=columns2>
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Variant: I never met a man that I didn't like.
“I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness.”
The Idiot (1868–9)
Context: I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness. I understood from the way he talked that anyone who chose could deceive him, and that he would forgive anyone afterwards who had deceived him, and that was why I grew to love him.
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
Attributed
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”
“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”
in Bukowski: Born Into This (2002)
Variant: I've never met another man I'd rather be.
Georgina Howell, The Demanding Nastassia Kinski http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860102&id=MQROAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MJwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6682,494045, New Straits Times, January 2, 1986
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
