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“By thunder, Elizabeth! Do keep that beast away from me.”

Trevor Walpole, The Imperfect Stranger. (1784)

“No, Sergeant! I would never murder my husband for a little thing like money.”

Allison Cowling, Night of the Detective.

“I know when I am being lied to, Mr. Ludwig. And I am not obligated to determine a motive for those lies.”

Giles Coxe-Coburn, Belief in Insects.

He called himself Miles Mander, but his real name was Nolan Babuska. Close friends called him Moose Babuska. Or some people later claimed to have called him that.

Clive Ennis, The Case of the Broken Handle.

“And what, you may ask, is science? It is stuff done by people who hold science degrees!”

Diana Moone, Living Well.

“Well, Sir Anthony won few friends with his notion that modernist painting was a sort of tantrum. About not having anything worth doing.“

Trent Bendix, Patricia Knows Best.

“I thought that Godfrey wanted to create a parody of aphorisms,” replied Mr. Sothern.

Thaddeus Crewes, Crowded Evil World.

“Lies abound, my dear fellow. Still, the hardest thing to do is to convince someone that he has been lied to.”

Will Bestwyck, Letters From Mr. Palindrome.

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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Theory is therapy.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.