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Wisely was it written: 'Let him that desireth oblivion confer benefits—but the memory of an injury endureth for ever.'

Thomas Anstey Guthrie

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F. Anstey was the pen-name of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (8 August 1856 – 10 March 1934), an English novelist and journalist.

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Alternative Names: Francis Anstey • Thomas A. Guthrie • F. Anstey

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Candour’s the cement of friendship.

These statements were, as he felt even in making them, not only gratuitous, but utterly unconvincing, but he had arrived at that condition in which a man discovers with terror the unsuspected amount of mendacity latent in his system.

No doubt they would tolerate him now for the Professor’s sake; but who would not rather be ignored than tolerated?

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