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lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

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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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In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.
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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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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
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Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.
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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
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Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
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One little Indian boy left all alone He went and hanged himself and then there were none.
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People who can be very good can be very bad too.
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Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
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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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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
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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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