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• I can give you my word, but I know what it's worth and you don't.
  -- Nero Wolfe, "Over My Dead Body...
• I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. -- Nero Wolfe
• I have no talents. I have genius or nothing. But all genius is distorted, even my own.
  -- Nero Wolfe...
• BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third.
  Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give....
• You must know that a man can have only one invulnerable loyalty, loyalty to his own concept of the obligations of manhood.
  All other loyalties are merely deputies of that one. -- Nero Wolfe...
• Over my dead body. -- Written on grave
• Marge: Honey, I know you feel a little silly saying the same four words over and over, but you shouldn't.
  You're making people happy, and that's a very hard thing to do....
• Bart: Is this cel worth anything? [gives him cel with arm on it] Deale
  [looks at it, sighs] Let me show you something. This -- this is a Snagglepuss drawn by Hic Heisler....
• Bart: Wow. Bein' in show business is like a dream.
  We're really lucky, aren't we? Workman: I wish I was dead....