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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

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We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

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I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

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It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

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Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

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To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

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if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

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You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

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There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

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I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

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Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

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One place is very like another.

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