You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not. " If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me. " I, also M. Ratchett. " What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.