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" As he scrolled through the files, Masolino noticed that this guy, Ellerby, hadn’t encrypted them. This was a pretty good hint that what he had been doing was probably legal. Of course, that wasn’t saying much: a lot of the dishonest, manipulative, sleazy shit that traders did was legal, which was the main reason why Masolino didn’t personally invest in the market. The last thing he wanted to be was another chump. If small-time investors knew how they were being reamed out by the big boys every day, they’d never invest again. "
― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)
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" Coldmoon shook his head. The case had gone from being open, to closed, to open again, so fast he felt almost dizzy. “Let this be a lesson to you, my friend, on the dangers of drawing conclusions too early,” Pendergast told him. “As H. L. Mencken once said, ‘There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.’ This was that neat, plausible, and wrong solution. "
― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)