
9 September 1920
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
Source: The Princess Bride
9 September 1920
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
“It is a good shrewd proverb of the Spaniard, Tell a lie and find a truth.”
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Simulation And Dissimulation
From Degas, Manet, Morisot by Paul Valéry (trans. David Paul), Princeton University Press, 1960.
Observations
1819; the Spaniards had sent Guerrero's father to plead for an end to Guererro's rebellion. http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history/jtuck/jtvguerrero.html
“My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.”
Source: Raven's Shadow
Mike Goodridge (March 26, 2005) "The seductress", Herald Sun, p. W10.