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“I do like cats. They are so unconsciously amusing. There is such a comic dignity about them, such a "How dare you!" "Go away, don't touch me" sort of air.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“But seriously Poirot, what a hobby! Compare that to--" his voice sank to an appreciative purr--"an easy chair in front of a wood fire in a long low room lined with books--must be a long room--not a square one. Books all round one. A glass of port--and a book open in your hand. Time rolls back as you read.”
― Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules

“No emotion is more inrooted and intense in the minds of common people than hatred and fear of anything “strange.”
― Count Stenbock, The Other Side

“Ambition is only vanity ennobled.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow