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I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

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In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Champagne for One (1958)

There's nothing as safe as ignorance — or as dangerous.

The Squirt and the Monkey (1951)

My God you love to get them, and good Lord you hate to answer them.

To be broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

as stated by Nero Wolfe in The Red Box (1937)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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