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Men Quotes by Rex Stout
- No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows…
- To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on…
- 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…
- Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled…
- Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures.…
- A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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