A man always has two reasons for what he does — a good one, and the real one.
Attributed in Owen Wister, Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship (1930)
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing: one that sounds good, and a real one.
Quoted in Owen Wister, Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, p. 280 (1930).
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