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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality. Alfred North Whitehead		Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
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When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think? Margery Louise Allingham

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	Margery Louise Allingham
	Margery Louise Allingham (May 20, 1904 - June 30, 1966) was a writer born in Ealing in London, England who produced many novels, short stories, and plays, mainly in the crime and mystery genres. She is best known as creator of the detective/adventurer Albert Campion. Read More

Other Margery Louise Allingham Quotes

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can ... weave it into a rope to hang a man.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.

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.

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.

Mourning is not forgetting.... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all he had, like a man passing a ball in a game.