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But Mr. Cramer,." Wolfe protested, "is it my fault if destiny likes this address?

Well, go on. I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

am quite aware that I bat close to a thousand on invitations to damsels only because I don't issue one unless the circumstances strongly indicate that it will be accepted.

The Minister and the Choir Singer

A man named Olin Miller has said, "Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Satisfactory, Archie,' he muttered. Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.

His had a nice rug which he said was an eighteenth-century Feraghan.

I was yelling at a dame with a frontage that would have made a good bookshelf.

Amazing that a creature so obtuse could live so long without meeting disaster.

There has never been a smoother operation since Whosis scattered the dust on the temple floor.

When Stout heard the news of Wodehouse's death in 1975, he expressed his admiration thus: "He always used the right words, and nearly always used them well.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]

Justice," he whispered, stretching out his hands as though in confident appeal to some impartial court, "justice that can be demonstrated mathematically, that is what I have to give.

Gang society required absolute ignorance, a violent nature, and ruthlessness. I was known to have all of these qualities.

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

the magic of gratitude happens according to the degree of your feeling!

I imagine he's at the altar," she replied matter-of-factly. "Where I left him." Jaynes' eyes bugged and a little choking sound emerged from

Drive, Jaynes!" In a blur of white satin and lace, Louisa Marie Honeycutt dove into the waiting limousine, slid across the expansive leather seat, then with a furtive look out the tinted window

At least he was useful in some ways. He made good cheese.

There is nothing worse than speeches about someone you don't know, made by someone you don't know.

expected to find you dead. But I entrusted you to the care of Saint Rita.

He said he had no desire to live in a country that glorified violence and he found France more civilized.