Quotable line in Edgar Wallace's The Four Just Men (1905)
In newspaper-land a dull lie is seldom detected, but an interesting exaggeration drives an unimaginative rival to hysterical denunciations.
There was a show or movie of this story series, and Vittorio de Sica the great Italian director was in it, that's why my dad knows his name, whenever i'd mention his name he'd go on about The Four Just Men, i'll share this with him when I see him next week.
