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Until one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

Agatha Christie

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
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
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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Best Hide Person Secret Yourself
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Explanation Rush Weakness
Time is the best killer.
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Best Kill One Liner Time
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Problem Simplicity Solution
Assumptions are dangerous things.
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Assumption Dangerous One Liner
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
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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Character Invention Life Tired Yourself
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
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Acceptance Companion Company Friendship Goodness Grave Learning Live Yourself
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
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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Delight Fellow Mad People Quiet
Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.
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Creature Encouragement Need Writing
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
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Appearance Funny Goodness Hard Life Man Yourself
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Face Human Life
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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Mystery Stranger Thinking Thrill World

Until one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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