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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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Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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No innocent person ever has an alibi.

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if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

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Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

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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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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

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I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

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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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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

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I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

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It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

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Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

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To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

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The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

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