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Rex Stout, in the voice of Archie Goodwin:
Skepticism is a good watchdog if you know when to take the leash off.
Stout, Rex, Fer-de-Lance (New York: Bantam, 1962), p. 143.
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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:
That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Stout, Rex, Fer-de-lance, (New York: Bantam, 1992), p. 3
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Caroline Graham:
“Where is his sense of perspective,” he added, forgetting that a prerequisite for a sense of perspective is a sense of humour.
Graham, Caroline, Murder at Madingly Grange, (London: Headline Publishing, 2009), p. 268
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Wendell Berry:
It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure.
(Missing attribution attributed.)