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Rex Stout:
In the midst of the most difficult and chaotic problems, I have never missed a meal. A stomach too long empty thins the blood and disconcerts the brain.
Nero Wolfe in Stout, Rex, Some Buried Caesar (New York: Bantam Dell, 2008), p. 192
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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax:
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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Rex Stout:
. . . he had invited luck to contribute to the great cause, by sundry means from crackaloo to 10-cent bridge, and learned to late that luck’s clock was slow.
Stout, Rex, Some Buried Caesar (New York: Bantam Dell, 2008) p. 132)