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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

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
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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Best Hide Person Secret Yourself
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
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
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Knowledge Oneself Wisdom
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
Assumptions are dangerous things.
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Assumption Dangerous One Liner
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
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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Love Pay Price Yourself
What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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Deep Goodness Happiness Money
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
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
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Busy Immortal Live Need People
Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
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Coincidence Notice Worth Yourself
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
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Alive Despair Live Misery Myself Quite Sorrow Wild
Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

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