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how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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

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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

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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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You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

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It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

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I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

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Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

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The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

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If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

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I am all that there is of the most real.

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