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Men--' said Miss Williams, and stopped. As a rich property owner says 'Bolsheviks'--as an earnest Communist says 'Capitalists!'--as a good housewife says 'Blackbeetles'--so did Miss Williams say 'Men!
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n l'Tfl mkhlwqt SGyr@ Gryb@, dh t`rDw lkhwf rhyb fnhm l ytHdthwn `nh, w l sym dh knw l yfhmwn mSdr r`bhm. nhm ydfnwn khwfhm byn jwrHhm, w rbm bd 'nhm nswh w lkn dhkrh tbq~ hnk fy '`mq nfwshm.
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Agatha Christie |
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869e4cf
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These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble.
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humour
poirot
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Agatha Christie |
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3d7b09e
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So you think that the coco- mark well what I say, Hastings, the coco- contained strychnine?" "Of course! That salt on the tray, what else could it have been?" "It might have been salt." replied Poirot placidly."
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Agatha Christie |
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28f730d
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It is completely unimportant," said Poirot. "That is why it is so interesting," he added softly." --
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Agatha Christie |
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a765f02
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You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were it not for constitutional indolence?
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humor
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Was bad language used?" asked Colonel Melchett. "It depends on what you call bad language." "Could you understand it?" I asked. "Of course I could understand it." "Then it couldn't have been bad language," I said. Mrs. Price Ridley looked at me suspiciously. "A refined lady," I explained, "is naturally unacquainted with bad language."
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lady
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Agatha Christie |
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A sound of laughter was heard-they turned sharply. Vera Claythorne was standing in the yard. She cried out in a high shrill voice, shaken with wild bursts of laughter: "Do they keep bees on this island? Tell me that. Where do we go for honey? Ha! ha!" They stared at her uncomprehendingly. It was as though the sane well-balanced girl had gone mad right before their eyes. She went on in that high unnatural voice: "Don't stare like that! As ..
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mad
vera
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You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth."
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Agatha Christie |
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lns fy lGlb yqtlwn mn yHbwn 'kthr mn qtlhm mn ykrhwn , l'n ldhyn tHbhm hm wHdhm ldhyn ystTy`wn 'n yj`lw Hytk l tTq
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الناس
حب
قتل
كره
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And then?" "And then," said Poirot. "We will talk! Je vous assure, Hastings - there is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide. A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality w..
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Agatha Christie |
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a78678f
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Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
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Agatha Christie |
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c19a5de
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The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.
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Agatha Christie |
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Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it."
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poirot
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421c1a6
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Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?' 'What?' 'A sport!' 'And a damned good sport too,' said Tommy.
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romance
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Agatha Christie |
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1099f2b
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I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
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Agatha Christie |
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34ee9bf
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What alchemy there was in human beings.
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Agatha Christie |
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fd65459
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One always has hope for human nature
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human-nature
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Agatha Christie |
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affb9e5
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The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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Agatha Christie |
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410c1d2
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Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
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Agatha Christie |
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When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.
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reality
hope
life
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1300eb4
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The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread. Dr Gerard was wiser. He knew that no race, no country and no individual could be described as free. But he also knew that there were different degrees of bondage.
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Agatha Christie |
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ff2890c
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Tea's a thing that need never be finished.
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Agatha Christie |
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e890ed7
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In fact-Dr. Sheppard!
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Agatha Christie |
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eaaad37
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There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet.
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Agatha Christie |
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70994bd
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Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.
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Agatha Christie |
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acfab02
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I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.
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Agatha Christie |
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c58c7c3
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You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes- two people. One is le bon Dieu - and the other is Hercule Poirot
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Agatha Christie |
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let this be a lesson to you. You are a . Behave, then, like a ! It is against Nature for a man to grovel. Women and Nature have almost exactly the same reactions! Remember it is better to take the largest plate within reach and fling it at a woman's head than it is to wriggle like a worm whenever she looks at you!
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Agatha Christie |
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I believe the present matters --- not the past! The past muust go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms --- a false perspective. - Hilda Lee
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Agatha Christie |
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You do not comprehend. It is not the victim who concerns me so much. It is the effect on the character of the slayer." "What about war?" "In war you do not exercise the right of private judgement. That is what is so dangerous. Once a man is imbued with the idea that he knows who ought to be allowed to live and who ought not - then he is halfway to becoming the most dangerous killer there is - the arrogant killer who kills not for profit - b..
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Agatha Christie |
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And that very same evening - that very same evening - Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.
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Agatha Christie |
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2c7efaa
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Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!
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Agatha Christie |
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La vie est vaine. Un peu d'amour, Un peu de haine, Et puis bonjour. La vie est breve. Un peu d'espoir, Un peu de reve, Et puis bonsoir.
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Agatha Christie |
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ba18127
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I, Hercule Poirot, am not amused.
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Agatha Christie |
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91a4a68
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Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple
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Agatha Christie |
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It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.
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Agatha Christie |
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f0c0cbd
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You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.
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Agatha Christie |
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777ac12
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I might concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so very busy punishing ourselves.
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Agatha Christie |
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A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?" "You don't believe in it?" "Do you?" "There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves."
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Agatha Christie |
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Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,... Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything--all nonsense. Get up with the sun I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and never tie yourself to a time or a date. I could teach people how to live if they would listen to me.
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Agatha Christie |
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4072ebe
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Miss Bulstrode had another faculty which demonstrated her superiority over most other women. She could listen.
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Agatha Christie |
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1c500bf
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But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.
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life
can-t-buy-everything
murder-mystery
not-for-sale
things-that-cannot-be-bought
five-little-pigs
hercule-poirot
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One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.
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