"Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you..."

-- Rex Stout

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“Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.”

Source : "An Essay on Translated Verse" by Wentworth Dillon, line 216, 1684.
“I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.”
“Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.”
“Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.”
“I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history.”
“I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.”
“My timingâ€™s a little off. But Iâ€™m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.”
“It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.”

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