You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. (Agatha Christie)

You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Agatha Christie

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