I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.


Agatha Christie

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wanted to know.” “It’s better not to know. It’s better never to know. Better to leave things...
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From what you read and hear nowadays, it seems that murder under certain aspects is slowly but surel...
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The past is the father of the present,” said Poirot sententiously. He
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was suspicious, had always been suspicious, of mercy—too much mercy, that is to say. Too much merc...
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It was not unknown in the present age for children to commit crimes, quite young children. Children ...
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There is always a brave new world,” said Poirot, “but only, you know, for very special people. T...
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But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that h...
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May your moustaches never grow less.
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...A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?"
"You don't believe in i...
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You want beauty,” said Hercule Poirot. “Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always ...
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There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was ...
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Put that in your mustache and smoke it.
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To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
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The past is the father of the present.
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You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I...
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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and a...
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You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ...
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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She w...
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One does feel proud to belong to the human race when one sees the wonderful things human beings have...
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they are only full of pity for the young killer, because of his youth. Why should they not execute h...
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Little by little the head emerged, preserved by the sludge for about 2,500 years. There it was–the...
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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
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On ülisuur viga lasta inimesel näha või kuulda valel ajal. Enamiku inimeste jaoks kaotab Shakespe...
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I can suspend judgment on those who kill–but I think they are evil for the community; they bring i...
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One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. you would not see it with the same ey...
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Oh, the glorious relief, the wonderful relief when somebody knows what's in your mind and tells it t...
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I was, like everyone else who wrote books or read them, against the criminal and for the innocent vi...
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have a war memorial of my own at Greenway. In the library, which was their mess-room, an artist has ...
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the horror of sitting at a tea table, looking across at my best loved friend, and suddenly realising...
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Oh, you still don’t understand,’ he said impatiently. ‘I’ve fallen in love with her, and I�...
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The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such ...
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