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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie 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.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie 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.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
Agatha ChristieAgatha 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.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie
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Ada Louise HuxtableAda Louise Huxtable Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame
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