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If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

~Margery Allingham

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Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

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Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

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I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

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When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 20th, 1889

Died: June 30th, 1966

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