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1 " It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack. "
― P.G. Wodehouse , The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories (Jeeves, #0.5)
2 " He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons. "
3 " Musical comedy is the Irish stew of drama. Anything may be put into it, with the certainty that it will improve the general effect. "
4 " Mother always used to say, 'If you want to succeed in life, please the women. They are the real bosses. The men don't count. "
5 " A dog without influence or private means, if he is to make his way in the world, must have either good looks or amiability. "
6 " They walked on in silence. Katie's heart was beating with a rapidity that forbade speech. Nothing like this very direct young man had ever happened to her before. She had grown so accustomed to regarding herself as something too insignificant and unattractive for the notice of the lordly male that she was overwhelmed. She had a vague feeling that there was a mistake somewhere. It surely could not be she who was proving so alluring to this fairy prince. The novelty of the situation frightened her. "
7 " Sex attraction is so purely a question of the taste of the individual that the wise man never argues about it. He accepts its vagaries as part of the human mystery, and leaves it at that. "
8 " I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment. "
9 " You go away and have a nice cup of hot tea,' said the agent, soothingly, 'and you'll be as right as anything in the morning. "
10 " must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment. If I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, "
11 " It would seem to be an inexorable law of Nature that no man shall shine at both ends. If he has a high forehead and a thirst for wisdom, his fox-trotting (if any) shall be as the staggerings of the drunken; while, if he is a good dancer, he is nearly always petrified from the ears upward. "
12 " Henry lived in a boarding-house in Guildford Street. "
13 " but the unsensational doings of a quite commonplace young "
14 " it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, where he was employed, they did not require "
15 " A detective is only human. The less of a detective, the more human he is. Henry was not much of a detective, and his human "
16 " Most of the Marois Bay scenery is simply made as a setting for the nursing of a wounded heart. The cliffs are a sombre indigo, sinister and forbidding; and even on the finest days the sea has a curious sullen look. You have only to get away from the crowd near the bathing-machines and reach one of these small coves and get your book against a rock and your pipe well alight, and you can simply wallow in misery. I have done it myself. "
17 " It sometimes seems to me that in this life we've all got to have trouble sooner or later, and some of us gets it bit by bit, spread out thin, so to speak, and a few of us gets it in a lump—biff! "
18 " He had never measured a footprint in his life, and what he did not know about bloodstains would have filled a library. "
19 " He was really only a sort of detective, a species "
20 " I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, "
