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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.

Agatha Christie

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
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Coincidence Notice Worth Yourself
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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Advice Money Trust
Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.
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Creature Encouragement Need Writing
Don’t think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.
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Mindset Thinking Way Wrong Yourself
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
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
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
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.
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Account Fact Let Go Theory
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
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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Intrigue Listening
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
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Fool Herself Love Man Woman
It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Happiness Spiritual Yourself
The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Education Expectation Simplicity
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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Best Herself Husband Old Woman
If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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Hard Oneself Principle See
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
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Care Failure Goodness Happiness People

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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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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