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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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We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

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

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I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

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I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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The truth often does sound unconvincing.

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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

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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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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

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Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

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The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

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But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

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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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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

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