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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

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Children, Suffering, Interference

Agatha Christie (1959). “Murder at the manor: The Seven dials mystery, Crooked House, Ordeal by innocence”

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It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

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Men, Revolution, Honest

Agatha Christie (2015). “The Secret Adversary (Diversion Classics)”, p.71, Diversion Books

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I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

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Pay The Price, Want, Nine

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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

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Vegetables, Wish, Pity

Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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Cells, Literature, Littles

'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' (1920) ch. 10 (Hercule Poirot)

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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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Selfish, People, Done

Agatha Christie “Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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there is evil everywhere under the sun.

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Evil, Sun

Agatha Christie (2010). “Evil Under the Sun (Poirot)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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

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Difficult, Preserves

Agatha Christie, Christie (1982). “Haloween Party”, Pocket

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You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

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Reason, Sentiments

Agatha Christie (2015). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Christie's Collections”, p.148, 谷月社

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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

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Intelligent, Perfect, Fool

Agatha Christie (1931). “The man in the brown suit”

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too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

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Safety, Abhorrent, Too Much

Agatha Christie (1975). “Curtain”

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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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Murder Mysteries, Literature, Quiet

Agatha Christie (1971). “And Then There Were None”

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It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

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Secret, Sin, Caps

Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage”

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

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Ghouls, People, Literature

Agatha Christie (2016). “The Witness for the Prosecution: And Other Stories”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

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Secret, Wish, Denial

Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead

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Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

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Evil, Superhuman, Humans

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To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

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Joy, Sorrow, Care

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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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Differences, Comfort, Misery

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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

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Facts, Absurd, Said

Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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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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Writing, Mind, Flaws

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The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

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Dream, Real, World

Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

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Real, Stage Performance, Perfection

Agatha Christie (2010). “Crooked House”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

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Surprise, Lied, Produce

Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

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Missing, Meals, Mystery

Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

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You should employ your little grey cells.

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Cells, Littles, Should

"The murder of Roger Ackroyd".

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Born: September 15, 1890
Died: January 12, 1976
Occupation: Novelist
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