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This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

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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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