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1 " He studied his role at each stage of his life and assumed the appropriate air. But he never bothered to study how to be the father of this family; I suppose he thinks we ought all to act our parts as members of the family of his imagination. "
― , The Santa Klaus Murder
2 " I have often found that the best way to persuade anyone to do something they suspect is to explain that they really need not do it. "
3 " If you go into a room where people are having an intimate conversation and they have to change the tone of it suddenly because you are there, you can always feel something in the atmosphere. A suspense; and a sort of tingling; as if their personalities had not got back properly into their shells of convention. "
4 " I nearly went off the deep end at that. The house seemed to be full of lunatics who never gave away anything they knew until it was just too late. But I did manage to tell the fool to explain himself. "