# Quote — S.S. Van Dine, The Benson Murder Case

> Anyway, you know full well I never wear boutonnieres. The decoration has fallen into disrepute. The only remaining devotees of the practice are roués and saxophone players.

- Author: [S.S. Van Dine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ss-van-dine.md)
- Book: [The Benson Murder Case](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ss-van-dine/the-benson-murder-case.md)
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> “Good God!” he mummered. “I don‘t know what to believe.”
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> “In that respect,” returned Vance, “you‘re in the same disheartenin‘ predic‘ment as all the philosophers.”

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> Circumstantial evidence, Markham, is the utt‘rest tommyrot imag‘nable. Its theory is not unlike that of our present-day democracy. The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence; and the theory of circumst‘ntial evidence is that if you accumulate a sufficient number of weak links, you produce a strong chain.

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> He spent considerable time at his clubs; his favorite was the Stuyvesant, because, as he explained to me, its membership was drawn largely from the political and commercial ranks, and he was never drawn into a discussion which required any mental effort

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