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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.

Agatha Christie

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
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
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
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
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
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
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Alone Oneself Remember
There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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Afraid Question Yourself
When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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Fact Let Go Theory
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 human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Face Human Life
The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
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Hard Knowledge Life Live Love Sad Save Suffering Yourself
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
To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.
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Brain Count Goodness True Woman
Assumptions are dangerous things.
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Assumption Dangerous One Liner
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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Childhood Happiness Yourself
What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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Deep Goodness Happiness Money

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