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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
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.
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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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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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People should be interested in books, not their authors.
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Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
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Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?
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Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?
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Hate doesn't last. Love does.
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There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.
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Books are a habit-forming drug.
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It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
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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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Life itself is an unsolved mystery, said the clergyman gravely.
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Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!
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there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
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The first time you do a thing is always exciting.
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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without. ~ Poirot
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