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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

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Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

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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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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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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

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Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

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It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

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

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Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

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

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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 every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

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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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