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The flowers were not for decoration. They were broken down for opium which was sold quickly and comparatively cheaply
Prohibition is the trigger of crime. Very soon the routine smuggling channels from China, Turkey and Italy were run almost dry by the illicit stock-piling in England.
Was there any person in the world who wasn’t somehow, perhaps only statistically, involved in killing his neighbour?
Like many very rich men he considered that showing his money, letting someone see how much he tipped, amounted to indecent exposure.
The interior of the car was deliciously cool,
They stared right through his face to the back of his skull. Then the lids drooped, the shutter closed over the X-ray, and Mr Goldfinger took the exposed plate and slipped it away in his filing system.
Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big – bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
