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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

Agatha Christie

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
To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.
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Brain Count Goodness True Woman
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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Intrigue Listening
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
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
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
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
You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
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Age Fight Live Material Willing Yourself
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
Until one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
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Children Failure Oneself Past See View World
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
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Greatness Life Mistake See Time Wrong
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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Innocence One Liner Person
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
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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Childhood Happiness Life Luck
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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Disaster Lose Oneself War Win
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

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