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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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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

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Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

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I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

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Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

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I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

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I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

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

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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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With thought, all problems can be resolved.

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fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

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