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"You know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all." -Sherlock Holmes
"It is my weakness, it has always been my weakness, to desire to show off." -Hercule Poirot
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" -Salvor Hardin
"Nero Wolfe is investigating the murder [...] with his accustomed vigor, skill, and laziness. He will not rest until he gets the bastard or until bedtime, whichever comes first" -Archie Goodwin
"Take Mr. Goodwin. It would be difficult for me to function effectively without him. He is irreplaceable. Yet his actions are largely governed by impulse and caprice, and that would of course incapacitate him for any important task if it were not that he has somewhere concealed in him - possibly in his brain, though I doubt it - a powerful and subtle governor" -Nero Wolfe
"My enemy's enemy is a problem for later. In the meantime, they might be useful" -Inquisitor Quixos
"I do not pretend to be a good man. I doubt if the pretence would be of any use were I to try: I am not a sufficiently good actor." -Jerome K Jerome, "The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"
"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing" -W. Edwards Deming (attr)