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Rex Stout:
It is always wiser, when there is a choice, to trust to inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
Stout, Rex, Fer-de-Lance (New York: Bantam, 1992), p. 174.
Fer-de-Lance was the first Nero Wolfe mystery, published in 1934.
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Ted Danson as Dr. John Becker:
Television has become the petri dish in which the country developes its idiots.
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Edmund Crispin, through the character of Inspector Humbledy, upon learning that Our Hero is reading a book by Henry James:
Narcotic. I always feel that Henry James ought to be dealt with in the Dangerous Drugs Act . . . .
Crispin, Edmund, Frequent Hearses (New York: Penguin, 1982) p. 11
I have read Henry James and I cannot argue with that sentiment. James makes Dickens seem positively spritely.