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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

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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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Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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Fear is incomplete knowledge.

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In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

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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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A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

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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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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

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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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You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

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I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

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

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

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What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

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Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

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