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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

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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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To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

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Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

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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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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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People should be interested in books, not their authors.

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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

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One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

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There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

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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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There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

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

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

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... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

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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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I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

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