Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, ch. 5 [Poirot] (1916, pub. 1920)
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Poirot, chiding Hastings' unfounded speculations.
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, ch. 5 [Poirot] (1916, pub. 1920)
(Source)
Poirot, chiding Hastings' unfounded speculations.
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may, with equal truth, be applied to the imagination — it is a good servant, but a bad master.
See Christie.