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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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In the midst of life, we are in death.

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Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

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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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It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

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And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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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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The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

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

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No innocent person ever has an alibi.

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

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... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

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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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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

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