The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books. (Silas Weir Mitchell)

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books.

Silas Weir Mitchell

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