“Tsk, tsk," I said, not moving at all. "Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.”

—  Raymond Chandler , book The Big Sleep

Source: The Big Sleep (1939), chapter 14

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