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"The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous."
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"No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field."
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"These three man," Mimi said, "are suspects in a recent theft. Last night, Polly Partial received a shipment of twenty blueberry pies. This morning she counted them and came up short.""How many are missing?" I asked."Last night she had twenty," Harvey said, shutting the station door, "and today she found zero. So at least eighteen are missing.""At least." I agreed."
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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
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"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."
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"A murderer is a killer without a uniform."
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"A killer is someone who killed another without their country's permission."
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"I was having a field day down the Westend; my deep pockets were jingling and full of money nearly every day of the week. My brother's bird, Irene, wanted a fur coat, so I got her one by throwing a brick through the shop window and grabbing the coat off the shop dummy. Once I got to the bed-sit, I put the jacket on and waltzed in to the flat looking like Liberace, the two of them burst out laughing. Irene was like a tramp eating chips. 'Let's try it on, Jimmy, please?' As she swooned around like Joan Collins with the fur coat on, she had the air of a council estate beauty queen about her."
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"Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!"
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"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
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"You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration."
Emotional
"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."
Opinion
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
Business
"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."
Politics
"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."
Cause
"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."
Character
"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
Crime
"He who hates vice hates men."
Man
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
Man
"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."
Virtue
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