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He turned over in his mind all he had read of that curious expression of human credulity called magic.

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If you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

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She was... never known to finish a sentence. She always got lost in the thickets of secondary thoughts that sprang up round her simple remarks...

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How deep are our layers of thought, Troy. So deep that the thought of thought is terrifying to most of us.

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She was often overcome, in other people's houses, by an overpowering desire to escape, a tyrannical restlessness as inexplicable as it was embarrassing. Every nerve in her body would suddenly telegraph 'I must get out of this.'

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'Jolly good! Super!' He occasionally adopted the mannerisms of an effusive scout-master.

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Ngaio Marsh

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Born: April 23, 1895
Died: February 18, 1982 (aged 86)
Bio: Dame Ngaio Marsh born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.
Known for:
  1. A Man Lay Dead (1934)
  2. Artists in Crime (1938)
  3. Death in a White Tie (1938)
  4. Overture to Death (1939)
  5. Enter a Murderer (1935)

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