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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

Agatha Christie

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
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Acceptance Companion Company Friendship Goodness Grave Learning Live Yourself
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
Very few of us are what we seem.
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Appearance One Liner Reality
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 simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Education Expectation Simplicity
The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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Best Planning Time Yourself
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Problem Simplicity Solution
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
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
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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Dog Quiet Wisdom World Wound
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
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
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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Best Hide Person Secret Yourself
If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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Hard Oneself Principle See
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
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

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