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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

Agatha Christie

Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
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Person Thinking Wrong
When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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Fact Let Go Theory
It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
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Important Inspirational Man Mistake Wasted Time Work
You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
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Age Fight Live Material Willing Yourself
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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Innocence One Liner Person
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Explanation Rush Weakness
What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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Deep Goodness Happiness Money
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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Kill Murder Potential Rise Time Willing
It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
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Love People Suffering
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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Curiosity Love People Thinking Yourself
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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Love Pay Price Yourself
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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Direction Myself Necessary Possible Save Thinking Trouble
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
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Busy Immortal Live Need People
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
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Children Experience Growth Intuition Reading Word
Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
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God Sin Yourself

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

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