domain | quoteinvestigator.com |
summary | Based on the information provided, it seems that the statement "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good" has been attributed to Marcel Proust and Alexander Pope. However, further investigation by Quote Investigator (QI) did not find any substantive evidence supporting the ascription to Alexander Pope, who died in 1744. QI discovered that Swiss musicologist and composer Ernst Levy wrote a letter to a friend in 1945, which was reprinted in the collection Letters of Composers: An Anthology 1603-1945. Therefore, it is more likely that this quotation originates from Ernst Levy rather than Alexander Pope or Marcel Proust. |
title | Quote Investigator® – Tracing Quotations |
description | Quote Investigator® – Tracing Quotations |
keywords | quote, have, investigator, origin, february, line, hold, page, there, books, question, reply, here, citations, figure, groucho, saying |
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nslookup | A 192.124.249.115 |
created | 2024-02-24 |
updated | 2024-10-21 |
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