Ah!” Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it. "Beware! Peril to the detective who says: ‘It is so small - it does not matter. It will not agree. I will forget it.' That way lies confusion! Everything matters. (Agatha Christie)

Ah!” Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it. "Beware! Peril to the detective who says: ‘It is so small - it does not matter. It will not agree. I will forget it.' That way lies confusion! Everything matters.

Agatha Christie

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