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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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It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

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It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

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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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Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

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I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

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It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

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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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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

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all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

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To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

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It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

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I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

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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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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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When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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