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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Rex Stout
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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.
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Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.
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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.
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A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
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Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you.
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I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.
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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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