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Quotation from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
“Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men’s real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?”
The Innocence of Father Brown, The Blue Cross (Project Gutenberg #204)
Flambeau asks how a celibate simpleton could know so much about thieves' tricks.
Citation: "Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men’s real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?" — G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Blue Cross (Project Gutenberg #204). (id the-innocence-of-father-brown-q2)
Portrait: Innocence of Fr Brown Lucas 006, Sydney Seymour Lucas, Public domain.
