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I suspected the movies, considering her cheap crack about me being a ten-cent Clark Gable, which was ridiculous. He simpers, to begin with, and to end with no one can say I resemble a movie actor, and if they did it would be more apt to be Gary Cooper than Clark Gable.

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.

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

man with his frontal lobes pushed back like that is unpredictable.

The Minister and the Choir Singer

Cramer said a word, loud, which I omit because I suspect that some of the readers of these reports are people like retired schoolteachers and den mothers.

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.

Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking exercise. He had recently got the impression he weighed too much- which was about the same as if the Atlantic Ocean had decided it was too wet...

The evening traffic was out playing tag, and it took long enough to get to West Thirty-fifth Street.

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.

Wolfe snorted. "The man's a fool. It's only a cow pasture." Being a good detective, he produced his evidence by pointing to a brown circular heap near our feet.

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

Are you Nero Wolfe's Archie Goodwin?" "No. I'm my Archie Goodwin. I'm Nero Wolfe's confidential assistant.

You're an expert. Will they regard it as murder?' 'An expert requires facts to be expert about. I haven't got enough. If you want a guess, I think they will.

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

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

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.

Happiness is your natural state, so if you don't feel happy right now, then you have a negative feeling that is stopping that happiness from being present within you. This chapter has various practices that will help end negative feelings that have had you wrapped in their repetitive loop. When you are free from them, you will finally live your life in your natural state of sheer joy and happiness—a life more spectacular than anything you have lived up until now.

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

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

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