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Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
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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Talk and tea is his specialty, said Giles. He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.
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