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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

Agatha Christie

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
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
Books are a habit-forming drug.
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Book Drug Form Habit
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
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.
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Direction Myself Necessary Possible Save Thinking Trouble
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
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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Children Dare Herself Law Love Mom Path Stand World
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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Advice Money Trust
Very few of us are what we seem.
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Appearance One Liner Reality
When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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Fact Let Go Theory
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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Innocence One Liner Person
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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Best Hide Person Secret Yourself
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
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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Character Invention Life Tired Yourself
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
Time is the best killer.
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Best Kill One Liner Time
What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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Deep Goodness Happiness Money
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
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
Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
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Advice Heart Heart Broken Myself
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
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Life Moments Oneself Recognition
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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Disaster Lose Oneself War Win
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
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Darkness Desire Friendship Mystery Passion Yourself
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
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Bitter Forever Journey Path
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
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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Beautiful Seek Truth Ugly

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

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