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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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Time is the best killer.

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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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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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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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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

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Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

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Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

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Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

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She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.

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To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

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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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Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

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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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