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S. S. Van Dine:
He took one of the fish out of the water with a small net, and it inflated itself into the shape of a ball.
“Curious idea,” Stamm commented, “–blowing oneself up into a ball to keep from being swallowed.”
“Oh, quite human, I should say,” Vance returned dryly. “All our politicians do the same thing.”
Van Dine, S. S. (Willard Huntington Wright), The Dragon Murder Case in
The Philo Vance Murder Cases, v. 4 (London: Leontaur, 2010), p-. 173-174
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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:
This confounded rancor is a pimple on the brain.
Stout, Rex, “Eeny Meeny Murder Mo” in Homicide Trinity (New York: Bantman, 1966), p. 14.