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Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

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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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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

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Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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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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I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

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... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

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Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

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I am all that there is of the most real.

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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

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With thought, all problems can be resolved.

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To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

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Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

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I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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