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Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.
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Poirot twinkled at her gently.
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One has occasionally to pocket one's pride and readjust one's ideas.
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I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us -- listening. one of us
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But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.
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It was a very British and utterly unconvincing performance.
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You do well. Method and order, they are everything," replied Poirot.
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Pilar sat squeezed up against the window and thought how very odd the English smelt.
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Pilar -- remember -- nothing is so boring as devotion."
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Yes, Mr. Lee." Superintendent Sugden did not wast time on explanations. "What's all this?"
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The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
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He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.
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The crime is now logical and reasonable.
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There is always something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
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'I have often noticed that being a devoted wife saps the intellect,' murmured Tommy.
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Flattery, in Tuppence's opinion, should always be laid on with a trowel where a man is concerned.
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Freckles are so earnest and Scottish.
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To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.
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It makes her rather alarming," I said. "Sincerity has that effect," said Miss Marple.
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Miss Marple twinkled at me.
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Fear is incomplete knowledge.
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Let us think only of the good days that are to come.
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It's as easy to utter lies as truth.
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Proof must be solid break walls of facts.
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It's so messy bleeding like a pig.
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I am not very clever about Americanisms -- and I understand they change very quickly."
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Perhaps a little of Trollope, but not to drown in him.
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No," said Miss Marple. "Murder isn't a game.
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One forgets how human murderers are.
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It all came together then, you see -- all the various isolated bits -- and made a coherent pattern.
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Children and one's social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for them.
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What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich?
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What beats me -- it always does -- is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.
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It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
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But when investing money, keep, I beg of you, Hastings, strictly to the conservative.
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They are so busy knocking that they do not notice that the door is open!
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Remember, he was a fanatic, and there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
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Never mind. I knew -- that was the great thing.
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Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.
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You have an excellent heart, my friend -- but your grey cells are in a deplorable condition.
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These little things are very significant.
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Murder isn't -- it really isn't -- a thing to tamper with lightheartedly.
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