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March 17 - March 20, 2025
Our hobbies and recreations can be summed up in the one word, “gossip.”
She wants to know where he comes from, what he does, whether he is married, what his wife was, or is, like, whether he has children, what his mother’s maiden name was—and so on. Somebody very like Caroline must have invented the questions on passports, I think.
a man may work towards a certain object, may labour and toil to attain a certain kind of leisure and occupation, and then find that, after all, he yearns for the old busy days, and the old occupations that he thought himself so glad to leave?”
“The chains of habit. We work to attain an object, and the object gained, we find that what we miss is the daily toil.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
“Everyone has something to hide,” I quoted, smiling. “Exactly.” “You still believe that?” “More than ever, my friend. But it is not easy to hide things from Hercule Poirot. He has a knack of finding out.”
“Hercule Poirot does not run the risk of disarranging his costume without being sure of attaining his object. To do so would be ridiculous and absurd. I am never ridiculous.”
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.
“Curiosity is not my besetting sin,” I remarked coldly. “I can exist comfortably without knowing exactly what my neighbours are doing and thinking.” “Stuff and nonsense, James,” said my sister. “You want to know just as much as I do. You’re not so honest, that’s all.
“The big air, it is all very well outside, where it belongs. Why admit it to the house?
“A little idea of mine, that was all. Me, I am famous for my little ideas.”
The old ones they laugh last sometimes, when the young, clever ones do not laugh at all.”
“Mademoiselle, it is the business of Hercule Poirot to know things.
