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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

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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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Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

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It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

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

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One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

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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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"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

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

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there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

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The rottenness comes from within.

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The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

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The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

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