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If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Agatha Christie

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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Disaster Feeling Horrible Lose Oneself War Win
Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
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God Sin Yourself
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Problem Simplicity Solution
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
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 best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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Best Planning Time Yourself
The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.
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Age Fools Old People Young
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
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
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
When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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Fact Let Go Theory
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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Childhood Happiness Yourself
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
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
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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Beautiful Seek Truth Ugly
If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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Animal Bite Complain Head Place 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
Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
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Advice Heart Heart Broken Myself
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
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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Knowledge Ourselves Possession Weapon
To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.
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Brain Count Goodness True Woman
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.
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Age Bloom Enjoyment Greatness Life Open Yourself
Books are a habit-forming drug.
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Book Drug Form Habit
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
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Bitter Forever Journey Path
Very few of us are what we seem.
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Appearance One Liner Reality
There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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Afraid Question Yourself

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