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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
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Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.
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You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
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To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
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To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]
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No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.
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I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.
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A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.
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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.
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I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.
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I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.
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... obsessions are always dangerous.
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You should employ your little grey cells.
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You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.
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Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple
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The rottenness comes from within.
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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.
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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.
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