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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

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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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Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

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there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

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It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

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Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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People who can be very good can be very bad too.

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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

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I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

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a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

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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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Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

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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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One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

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