I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

Rex Stout

Tag: archie-goodwin nero-wolfe

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Mrs. Rachel Bruner: [trying to goad Wolfe] I thought you were afraid of nobody and nothing.

Nero Wolfe: [unruffled] I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

Rex Stout

Tag: nero-wolfe

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Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef's ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish.

Rex Stout

Tag: corn nero-wolfe

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Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

Rex Stout

Tag: chili nero-wolfe

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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Rex Stout

Tag: wisdom foolishness wise luck folly nero-wolfe merits vainity vainer

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