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Dashiell Hammett 39
American writer 1894–1961Related quotes

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“Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.”
From Abe Martin's "Short Furrows" http://books.google.com/books?id=uUUoAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Nobuddy+ever+listened+t+reason+on+a+empty+stomach%22&pg=RA3-PA16#v=onepage, The American Magazine, February 1913.
“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.”
Existence (1975)
Fiction

“[T]he remedy of force can never supply the remedy of reason.”
Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
“Music is the medicine of a troubled mind.”
Lucubrates Poemata 'Musica (1567)

“[T]he universe is largely the construction of each individual mind.”
Introductory
The Grammar of Science (1900)