Notes from Wikiquote
This quote is mentioned earlier, for example in the 1930s, and is attributed to François de La Rochefoucauld and Mark Twain.
More quotes by Alexander Chase
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his time in hell.
For the unhappy man death is the commutation of a sentence of life imprisonment.
Walking in space, man has never looked more puny or more significant.
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