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The past is the father of the present.

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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
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Novelist
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Playwright
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
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One must make one's own mistakes
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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
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I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.
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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
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I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.
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In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
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To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
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Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.
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The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.
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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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The rottenness comes from within.
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Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.
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Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.
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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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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
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People should be interested in books, not their authors.
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