Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She … - Lloyd Alexander

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Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

Lloyd Alexander

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not.

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