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Josephine Tey Inspirational Quotes (11)

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In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.
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Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.
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Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.
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Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.
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A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.
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That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.
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After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.
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A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.
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Nothing great ever came out of common sense.
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The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.
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Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.
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