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you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

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There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

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The truth often does sound unconvincing.

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If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

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Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

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Things never come when they are expected.

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It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

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No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

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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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If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

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He laughs best who laughs at the end.

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Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

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