“Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.”

— Agatha Christie , Murder at the Vicarage

Source: Murder at the Vicarage

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English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976

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