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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

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I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

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Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

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There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

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One must make one's own mistakes

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

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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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People should be interested in books, not their authors.

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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

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And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

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there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

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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 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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