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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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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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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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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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The rottenness comes from within.

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These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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

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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

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The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

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You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

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Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

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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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