“Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.”

—  Ernest Hemingway , book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 9

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