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Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

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Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

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

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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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

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From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

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Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

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No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

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You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

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Very few of us are what we seem.

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Hate doesn't last. Love does.

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I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

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... obsessions are always dangerous.

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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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There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, is it not? I have always admired red-haired women. Your hair is very beautiful. There are other things I like about you. Your spirit, your courage; the fact that you have a mind of your own. ~Mr. Aristides

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It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

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To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

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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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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

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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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