"He smacked his lips, tasting the fifth brand, and holding up the glass looked through the amber at the light. ""This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. So far, none of this is sewage."
Nero Wolfe
From Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance
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