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1 " Uncertainty creates panic. "
― Agatha Christie , Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #1.5)
2 " One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself. "
3 " « [...] É il cervello, le piccole cellule grigie» si batté una mano sulla fronte, «la cosa su cui bisogna basarsi. I sensi inducono in errore. Bisogna cercare la verità dal di dentro, non dal di fuori.» "
4 " Mon Dieu! It is that in this country you treat the affairs gastronomic with a criminal indifference. "
5 " With method and logic one can accomplish anything! "
6 " I disdained to argue, and entrenched my curiosity behind a rampart of pretended indifference. "
7 " I pass over the spectacle of Poirot on a camel. He started by groans and lamentations and ended by shrieks, gesticulations and invocations to the Virgin Mary and every Saint in the calendar. In the end, he descended ignominiously and finished the journey on a diminutive donkey. "
8 " Dieu! It is that in this country you treat the affairs gastronomic with a criminal indifference. "
9 " I, too, believe in the force of superstition, one of the greatest forces the world has ever known. "
10 " And for five long hours the little man sat motionless, blinking his eyelids like a cat, his green eyes flickering and becoming steadily greener and greener. "
11 " And the Minister strode rapidly away. "
12 " Once get it firmly established that a series of deaths are supernatural, and you might almost stab a man in broad daylight, and it would still be put down to the curse, so strongly is the instinct of the supernatural implanted in the human race. "
13 " You really have the best opinion of yourself of anyone I ever knew!’ I cried, divided between amusement and annoyance. "
14 " Lord Yardly turned out to be a cheery, loud-voiced sportsman with a rather red face, but with a good-humoured bonhomie about him that was distinctly attractive and made up for any lack of mentality. "