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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 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
For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
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Lie Long People Run Truth
The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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Best Planning Time Yourself
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
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
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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Expression Greatness People Proper Trouble Writing
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
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Eat Engagement Service Stomach
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
Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth
There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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Afraid Question Yourself
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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Advice Money Trust
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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Best Hide Person Secret Yourself
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
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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Innocence One Liner Person
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

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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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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