Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
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it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust to inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.”
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To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.