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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Agatha Christie

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
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
There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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Different Doubt Money Myself Oneself People World
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Face Human Life
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 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 saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
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Hard Knowledge Life Live Love Sad Save Suffering Yourself
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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Advice Money Trust
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
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
To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.
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Brain Count Goodness True Woman
I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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Growth Marriage Myself Old Praise
There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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Evil Freedom God Man Tendency Willing
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
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Alone Oneself Remember
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

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