What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good inten — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

— David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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