“That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile — that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.”

— Edmund Clerihew Bentley, book Trent's Own Case

Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It"

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British writer 1875–1956

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