Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.

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