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you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

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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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Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

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One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

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Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

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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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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

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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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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

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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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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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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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Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

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Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

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There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.

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

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Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

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