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Robert van Gulik:
And both nearing middle age, when passion burns with a more intense fire than in one’s youth.
van Gulik, Robert, The Phantom of the Temple (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1995), p. 174
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Robert van Gulik:
As our old proverb states: “A dangerous dog bites without first baring its teeth.”
van Gulik, Robert, The Chinese Maze Murders (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997), p. 32.
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Averell Harriman:
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
Aside:
How very quaint.
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S. S. Van Dine:
. . . he carried himself with the self-conscious precision of a man unduly impressed with his own importance.
Van Dine, S. S. (Willard Huntington Wright), The Canary Murder Case in
The Philo Vance Murder Cases, v. 1 (London: Leonaur, 2010), p. 308