Quote by Margery Allingham
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. – Margery Allingham

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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. – Margery Allingham

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Intuition is a faculty of the soul, just as reliable as that of Reason… – R.H. Brown, “It Is All Clairvoyance!” in The Spiritual Magazine, October 1868

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