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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
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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Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
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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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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
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