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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
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Advice Goodness Ignorance Reason
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
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Beginning Human Mindset Remember Result Thinking Value
Too much mercy often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
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Crime Innocence Justice Mercy Need Result Victim
Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Bitter Forever Journey Path
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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Children Dare Herself Law Love Mom Path Stand World
The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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Best Planning Time Yourself
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Problem Simplicity Solution
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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Existence Forever
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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Childhood Happiness Yourself
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Eat Engagement Service Stomach
Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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Human Life Nature See Train Wonderful
Very few of us are what we seem.
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Appearance One Liner Reality
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
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Greatness Life Mistake See Time Wrong
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
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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Disaster Lose Oneself War Win

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

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