If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
Agatha Christiehow tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
Agatha ChristieYou have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
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