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"Compose yourself, Archie. Why taunt me? Why upbraid me? I am merely a genius, not a god. A genius may discover the hidden secrets and display them; only a god could create new ones."
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Nero WolfeWhat do we do when we have no clues? Do you know?" — Nero Wolfe
"What do we do when we have no clues? Do you know?" "No, sir." "We make one."
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Nero Wolfe
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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
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"I am nobodys friend. How much can you pay?"
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"I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action."
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"To assert dignity is to lose it."
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"But in connection with my remark to Mr. Kommers it occurs to me that no publication either before or since the invention of printing, no theological treatise and no political or scientific creed, has ever been as narrowly dogmatic or as offensively arbitrary in its prejudices as a railway timetable."
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"If I were to begin borrowing money I would end by devising means of persuading the Secretary of the Treasury to lend me the gold reserve."
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