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― Ellery Queen , The Greek Coffin Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #4)
2 " My dear Pepper,” said Ellery, “that is the curse of my composition. I’m always thinking. I’m pursued by what Byron in Childe Harold—you recall that magnificent first canto?—saw fit to call, ‘The blight of life—the demon Thought. "
3 " God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty. … "
4 " Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. "
5 " A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. "
6 " There is pattern but no logic in criminality. It is your task to cohere confusion, to bring order out of chaos. "
7 " Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet, "
