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"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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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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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

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Books are a habit-forming drug.

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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

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Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

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the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

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Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

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

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Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

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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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No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

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Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

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Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

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I am all that there is of the most real.

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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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Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

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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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