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No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
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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'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.
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... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
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In the midst of life, we are in death.
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
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Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.
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Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.
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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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You've a pretty good nerve, said Ratchett. Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you? It will not. If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me. I, also M. Ratchett. What's wrong with my proposition? Poirot rose. If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett,
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Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
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With thought, all problems can be resolved.
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Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.
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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
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