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Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

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Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

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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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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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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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Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

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I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

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I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

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Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

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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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Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

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too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

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In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

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