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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
Autobiographer
Dramaturge
Novelist
Nurse
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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Happiness
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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
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if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.
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I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.
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It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
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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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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.
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Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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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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I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
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The first time you do a thing is always exciting.
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There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
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