There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him. (Francis Bacon)

There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him.

Francis Bacon

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