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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

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you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

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There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

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Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

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And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

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A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

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You should employ your little grey cells.

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Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

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Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!

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If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

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If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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