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Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
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I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: I do not know...
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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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Desperate ills need desperate remedies.
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how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
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You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.
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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
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Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
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... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.
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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
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... nothing is so boring as devotion.
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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
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... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.
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I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.
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