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The Black Mountain (Nero Wolfe #24) QUOTES

The Black Mountain (Nero Wolfe #24) QUOTES

1 " If personal vengeance were the only factor I could, as you suggested, go and stick a knife in him and finish it, but that would be accepting the intolerable doctrine that man’s sole responsibility is to his ego. That was the doctrine of Hitler, as it is now of Malenkov and Tito and Franco and Senator McCarthy; masquerading as a basis of freedom, it is the oldest and toughest of the enemies of freedom. "

― Rex Stout , The Black Mountain (Nero Wolfe #24)

2 " man with his frontal lobes pushed back like that is unpredictable. "

― Rex Stout , The Black Mountain (Nero Wolfe #24)