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The Greek Coffin Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #4) The Greek Coffin Mystery by Ellery Queen
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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet,”
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“Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.”
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“taboret itself was small and”
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“God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty. …”
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“My dear Pepper,” said Ellery, “that is the curse of my composition. I’m always thinking. I’m pursued by what Byron in Childe Harold—you recall that magnificent first canto?—saw fit to call, ‘The blight of life—the demon Thought.”
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“There is pattern but no logic in criminality. It is your task to cohere confusion, to bring order out of chaos.”
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“A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”
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