1. "M. Poirot,’ she said somewhat breathlessly, ‘Can I speak to you alone?’ ‘Milady, Captain Hastings is as my other self. You can speak before him as though he were a thing of no account, not there at all. Be seated, I pray you."
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Agatha Christie, Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries
2. "Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]"
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Agatha Christie, The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
3. "Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more."
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Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
4. "There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves."
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Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
5. "In everybody's life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known."
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Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
6. "I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves, said Joanna. It arouses all my worst instincts."
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Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
7. "There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them."
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Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
8. "Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?"
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Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
9. "... Good gracious, Jerry, you'll probably have to marry the girl.' Joanna was half serious, half laughing. It was at that moment that I made a very important discovery. 'Damn it all,' I said. 'I don't mind if I do. In fact - I should like it.' A very funny expression came over Joanna's face. She got up and said dryly, as she went toward the door, 'Yes, I've known that for some time...' She left me standing, glass in hand, aghast at my new discovery."
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Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
10. "Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?"
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Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger