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Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

Erle Stanley Gardner

Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

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Now listen, Lam, he said, you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

Erle Stanley Gardner

Now listen, Lam, he said, you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

About Author
Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.
The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A. A. Fair, Carl Franklin Ruth, Carleton Kendrake, Charles M. Green, Charles J. Kenny, Edward Leaming, Grant Holiday, Kyle Corning, Les Tillray, Robert Parr, Stephen Caldwell, and once as the Perry Mason character Della Street ("The Case of the Suspect Sweethearts"). Three stories were published as Anonymous ("A Fair Trial", "Part Music and Part Tears", and "You Can't Run Away from Yourself" aka "The Jazz Baby").

Will-have a tendency to

Erle Stanley Gardner

Will-have a tendency to

You might be interested in his economic philosophy, Mr. Mason. He believed men attached too much importance to money as such. He believed a dollar represented a token of work performed, that men were...

Erle Stanley Gardner

You might be interested in his economic philosophy, Mr. Mason. He believed men attached too much importance to money as such. He believed a dollar represented a token of work performed, that men were...

Life is like that. We can only see from birth to death. The rest of it is cut from our vision. Drake

Erle Stanley Gardner

Life is like that. We can only see from birth to death. The rest of it is cut from our vision. Drake

Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools.

Erle Stanley Gardner

Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools.

If you ask me, this younger generation is altogether too careless about their morals.

Erle Stanley Gardner

If you ask me, this younger generation is altogether too careless about their morals.

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I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

Erle Stanley Gardner

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

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We’re a dramatic people, Perry Mason said slowly. We’re not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It’s a national craving. We’re geared to a r...

Erle Stanley Gardner

We’re a dramatic people, Perry Mason said slowly. We’re not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It’s a national craving. We’re geared to a r...

However, as a true scientist, Dr. Ford is utterly indifferent to public praise on the one hand, or public criticism on the other. He only wants to satisfy his own conscience. What people may then say...

Erle Stanley Gardner

However, as a true scientist, Dr. Ford is utterly indifferent to public praise on the one hand, or public criticism on the other. He only wants to satisfy his own conscience. What people may then say...

Appraisal was evident in his glance. Well, then, he said, let’s hear about

Erle Stanley Gardner

Appraisal was evident in his glance. Well, then, he said, let’s hear about

Every eight years, the people swallow some politician hook, line, and sinker and make him president. They hold him on the political stomach for about six years. Then they commence to get indigestion b...

Erle Stanley Gardner

Every eight years, the people swallow some politician hook, line, and sinker and make him president. They hold him on the political stomach for about six years. Then they commence to get indigestion b...

You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.

Erle Stanley Gardner

You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.

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Of the murder and whether he could possibly have been out there at the country club at the time the murder was committed. There’s not a chance. At the time the murder must have been committed, Hedley...

Erle Stanley Gardner

Of the murder and whether he could possibly have been out there at the country club at the time the murder was committed. There’s not a chance. At the time the murder must have been committed, Hedley...

Overboard,

Erle Stanley Gardner

Overboard,

There was that about her which indicated she was warily watchful.

Erle Stanley Gardner

There was that about her which indicated she was warily watchful.

You Can Die Laughing (1957) Some

Erle Stanley Gardner

You Can Die Laughing (1957) Some

And then what happens to the reformer, lover? He either has to build up a political machine or else he’s defeated at the next election. If he builds up a political machine, he has to do it by distribu...

Erle Stanley Gardner

And then what happens to the reformer, lover? He either has to build up a political machine or else he’s defeated at the next election. If he builds up a political machine, he has to do it by distribu...

To reach your goal, remember that courage is the only antidote for danger.

Erle Stanley Gardner

To reach your goal, remember that courage is the only antidote for danger.