The Harder the Life, the Finer the Type

Wilfred Thesiger? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: Our local newspaper printed the following quotation and attribution:  “The harder the life, the better the man,” the British desert explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger is popularly quoted as having said. Thesiger led an extraordinary life as an explorer and travel writer, and he left behind a large trove of …