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I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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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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The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

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The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

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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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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

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

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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

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If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

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Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

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It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

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