Editing Mr. Moto (section)

===Personal life===
Mr. Moto rarely discusses his personal life but in ''Think Fast, Mr. Moto'' he talks about his many talents.
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Yes, I can do many, many things.  I can mix drinks and wait on table, and I am a very good valet.  I can navigate and manage small boats.  I have studied at two foreign universities.  I also know carpentry and surveying and five Chinese dialects.  So very many things come in useful.
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In ''[[Mr. Moto Is So Sorry]]'' he states that one of the foreign universities was in America where he studied [[anthropology]].  It is noted in this novel that he has enough knowledge of America to distinguish regional accents.

The novels generally involve a romance between the main character (often a disenfranchised expatriate American) and a mysterious woman. While Mr. Moto often despairs of the hero's attempts at saving the girl, he notes in ''[[Mr. Moto Is So Sorry]]'' that he himself is not immune to their charms.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}

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"So often", he said, "I have seen such gracious ladies disrupt political combinations."  He sighed and still stared at the ceiling seemingly lost in memory. "Such a lovely girl in Washington – I was so much younger then. She sold me the navy plans of a submarine.  The price was thirty thousand yen.  When the blueprints came, they were of a tugboat. Such a lovely lady. Such a lovely lady in Tokyo. She took me to see the goldfish in her garden, and there were the assassins behind the little trees. Not her fault, but theirs that I am still alive – they were such poor shots. I do not understand lovely ladies, but I still trust them sometimes."
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