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A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

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Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

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

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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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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

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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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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 specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

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Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

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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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Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

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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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