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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

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Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

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

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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

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My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

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marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

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Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

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Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

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There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

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

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Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

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Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

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