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1 " Sometimes procedures worked well; and sometimes (as now) there was every reason for the police to be congratulated on the way situations were handled. On this occasion one thing only (perhaps two?) had marred police professionalism. "
― Colin Dexter , The Daughters of Cain (Inspector Morse, #11)
2 " Phobias were common enough. Some people suffee from arachnophobia, or hysphobia, or myophobia, or pterophobia... Well-nigh everyone suffers occasionally from thanatophobia; many from necrophobia — although Morse was not really afraid of dead bodies at all, or so he told himself. "
3 " Maximum mental energy' had never been Kevin's strong point. "
4 " My life will not be significantly impoverished if I never see another Shakespearian comedy. "
5 " But he'd realized too, at the same time, that his capacity for jealousy was pretty nearly boundless. "
6 " The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife "
7 " you’ve never seen any evidence of drugs—any packets of drugs? Crack? Speed? Ecstasy? Anything? Anything at all?” Had she? “No,” she said. Almost truthfully. “You’ve never smelt anything suspicious?” “I wouldn’t know what they smell like, drugs, "
8 " and Lewis felt excitement, and gratification. Somebody—some "
