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

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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

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

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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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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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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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I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

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I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

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Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

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... obsessions are always dangerous.

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