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Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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

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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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It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

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You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

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But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

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Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

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The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

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Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

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And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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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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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

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