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Quotation from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
“The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out, and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is NOT found out.”
The Woman in White, Second Epoch, The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe, III (Project Gutenberg #583)
At dinner at Blackwater Park the Count teases Laura's belief that murder will out; Sir Percival mocks the copy-book maxim that crimes cause their own detection.
Citation: "The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out, and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is NOT found out." — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White, Second Epoch, The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe, III (Project Gutenberg #583). (id the-woman-in-white-q5)
Portrait: (William) Wilkie Collins by Rudolph Lehmann, Rudolf Lehmann, Public domain.
