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Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

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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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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

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

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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

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marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

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These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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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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You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

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Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

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