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I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

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Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

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Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

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I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

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If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

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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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... 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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Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

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You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

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What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

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"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

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If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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