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It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.

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
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
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Eat Engagement Service Stomach
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
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
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
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
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Person Thinking Wrong
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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Appearance Impossible Possible
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Explanation Rush Weakness
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
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Alive Destroy Happiness Place Yourself
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
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Certain Oneself Sound Thinking Word
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
Books are a habit-forming drug.
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Book Drug Form Habit
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
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Appearance Funny Goodness Hard Life Man Yourself
It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!
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Mystery Remove Romance
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

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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