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Quote by Margery Allingham
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, tha

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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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. – Jean de la Fontaine

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