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Agatha Christie
“I'd rather have my job than yours."
"Why?"
"Because your job deals very largely with what we call right and
wrong � and I'm not at all sure that there's any such thing.
Suppose it's all a question of glandular secretion. Too much of
one gland, too little of another � and you get your murderer,
your thief, your habitual criminal. Clement, I believe the time will
come when we'll be horrified to think of the long centuries in
which we've indulged in what you may call moral reprobation, to
think how we've punished people for disease � which they can't
help, poor devils. You don't hang a man for having tuberculosis.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Angela Thirkell
“I'm sorry to disturb you, madam,' said Nurse, 'but I thought I'd better speak to you. It's about Miss Delia's knickers' she continued, after a glance at the Vicar and a rapid decision that his cloth protected him. 'She really hasn't a pair fit to wear...”
― Angela Thirkell, The Brandons
tags: humour, satire, vicar
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Peter Carey
“The murders were so ghastly you might think it peculiar that Lucinda, no matter how lonely she might be, would leave her house at all, or, accepting the peculiarity, you may wrongly attribute great courage to her when you hear she had driven, unaccompanied, through streets that were still, for the most part, unlighted. Further, she was by no means insensible to this murderer. She was informed that he was, in all likelihood, a butcher or, the press suggested, an unsuccessful apprentice.”
― Peter Carey
tags: horses, murder, religious-doctrines, sydney, vicar
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“I walked through the back yard to the door, for in these parts everyone seemed to always use the backdoor as the front and the front door was only for the vicar. Pushing open the heavy wooden door I immediately smelt the food on the stove and to this day the smell of broth makes me slightly queasy. The heat of the stove hit me and with the flush on my face from walking I felt it redden further.”
― LEONORA MORRISON, Red Velvet Rose
tags: back-door, broth, doors, flush, frnt-door, redden, stove, vicar
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