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Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell

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she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, ...more

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Anissa’s Quotes

“It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapter Sixteen.”
― Martin Edwards Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased

tags: amateur-sleuth

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“I never lose, I either win or learn”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: attitude, inspirational, positive-thinking

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“Sometimes, indeed, he went so far as to visualise himself as an archangel, a rotund St. Michael, armed with the sword of Dymond and defended by the shield of Green, protecting the helpless from the assault of the massed powers of Darkness, those arch-fiends, the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.”
― Martin Edwards Michael Gilbert

tags: taxes

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“You do not seem to appreciate the intensity of Julia’s feelings towards the Department of Inland Revenue. She is under the impression that it is a vast conspiracy having as its sole objective her physical, mental and financial ruin.”
― Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered

tags: inland-revenue, taxes

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“We are all glamorous, some more so than others.”
― Iain Cameron Williams, The Empirical Observations of Algernon

tags: glamor, glamorous, iain-cameron-williams

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