70+ Agatha Christie Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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
Very few of us are what we seem.
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Appearance One Liner Reality
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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Expression Greatness People Proper Trouble Writing
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.
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Age Bloom Enjoyment Greatness Life Open Yourself
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
Books are a habit-forming drug.
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Book Drug Form Habit
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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Childhood Happiness Yourself
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
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
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 of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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Childhood Happiness Life Luck
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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Advice Money Trust
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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Best Hide Person Secret Yourself
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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Knowledge Ourselves Possession Weapon
Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
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Advice Heart Heart Broken Myself
What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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Deep Goodness Happiness Money
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
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
If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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Animal Bite Complain Head Place Yourself
Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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Human Life Nature See Train Wonderful
Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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Different Present Time
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
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
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
I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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Growth Marriage Myself Old Praise
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Eat Engagement Service Stomach
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

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