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What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

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You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

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

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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

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... obsessions are always dangerous.

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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

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Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

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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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Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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Books are a habit-forming drug.

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Things never come when they are expected.

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Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

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a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

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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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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

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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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Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

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