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People who can be very good can be very bad too.
Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.
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Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.
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Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.
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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
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People should be interested in books, not their authors.
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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
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Desperate ills need desperate remedies.
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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
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lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.
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Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
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I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.
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I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
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Time is the best killer.
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You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.
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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
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There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.
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The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety sanctification gives us the second - soundness.
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