Josephine Tey - The Franchise Affair (1948)

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The builder had lacked an architect's eye. He had used the idiom of the time, but it had apparently not been native to him.

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Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

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When a man had been a counsel in the criminal courts as long as Kevin had, his mind had only points of view, not convictions any more.

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Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

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You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

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Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write!

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