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"Starving the live will not profit the dead."
"Cramer: "Why did you notice that?" "Ah," I said. "Now youve got me. I give up. Im trapped. Why does anybody notice anything?"

Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in New York City, and he is loath to leave his home for business or anything that would keep him from reading his books, tending his orchids, or eating the gour
"Starving the live will not profit the dead."
"I am neither a thaumaturge nor a dunce."
"To assert dignity is to lose it."
"This is my department, Mr. Truett." "Not the part of it Im in at any given moment. Yours is the stock department. Mine is the murder department."
"I wouldnt use physical violence even if I could, because one of my romantic ideas is that physical violence is beneath the dignity of a man, and that whatever you get by physical aggression costs more than it is worth."
"I can dodge folly without backing into fear."